Lemon-Honey Drop Cookies

(from go panthers’s recipe box)

Source: Cooking Light

Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 12 minutes
Serves 32 people

Categories: Christmas - Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 7 tablespoons butter or stick margarine, softened
  • 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup plain fat-free yogurt
  • Cooking spray
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°.

  2. Beat first 3 ingredients with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add honey, extract, and egg; beat until well-blended. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.

  3. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt, stirring well with a whisk. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture alternately with yogurt, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Drop by level tablespoons 2 inches apart onto baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 12 minutes or until lightly browned.

  4. Combine powdered sugar and juice in a small bowl; stir with a whisk. Brush powdered sugar mixture evenly over hot cookies. Sprinkle evenly with 2 teaspoons rind. Remove cookies from pan; cool on wire racks.

  5. Yield: 32 cookies (serving size: 1 cookie)

  6. LORIES 89 (28% from fat); FAT 2.8g (sat 1.6g,mono 0.8g,poly 0.2g); PROTEIN 1.1g; CHOLESTEROL 14mg; CALCIUM 15mg; SODIUM 81mg; FIBER 0.2g; IRON 0.4mg; CARBOHYDRATE 15.3g

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