Lemon Drizzle Biscuits

Two of my favourite things in this world are Lemon and Drizzle. If there is any lemon based treat I'm there. I will gladly reject puddings, treats and chocolate based goods if there is an option for a food that contains that tangy lemon sourness. 

For those of you that know me, you will know that I do not buy snacks to eat at home. No crisps, chocolates or biscuits. My philosophy is that if I really want something, I have to get off my behind and make it myself. My waist line is thankful that I'm quite lazy. 

I have to admit that these biscuits are a creation of a 'chuck it in and see what happens' moment brought on by sweet cravings. People went back for more though, so apparently they turned out all right. In my head while making these biscuits, I was thinking about a cookie that tasted like lemon drizzle cake, that's probably the closest description I can think of. 

I made mine in a food processor as its easier to wash up afterwards. 

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Ingredients 

1 Lemon (zested and juiced)

50 g Icing sugar

70 g Brown Sugar

120 g Butter (room temperature)

150 g Plain flour

1 Egg

For the Icing

100 g Icing Sugar

1 Lemon (zested and juiced)

1 tbls warm water

To start pre heat the oven to high heat, and line a baking tray. 

Add everything but the lemon zest and juice into a food processor (or bowl) and whisk together until it comes together in a cookie dough consistency. Add in the juice and zest of one lemon until combined. The perfect tool for dishing this out onto the baking tray is an ice cream scoop, if you don't have one, just use two spoons to make dough balls and place them evenly spaced onto the baking tray. I then pressed them down with the back of a spoon and baked in the oven for 10 minutes. 

Once they are starting to brown, pop them onto a wire rack to cool. At this stage I sprinkled them with more lemon juice and let it soak in. 

While the biscuits are cooling, add all of the Icing ingredients into a bowl and mix well. Once the biscuits are cool to touch, drizzle over the icing. A handy tip when doing this is to hold the wire rack over the sink and drizzle the icing on there, as it will drip through the rack onto the work surface creating a mess.

Enjoy!