Lemon Chocolate Chip Cookies

My daughter wanted chocolate chip cookies…my husband wanted lemon cookies.  What to do??  I didn’t have time to make two separate batches of cookies, so a quick look at Cooks.com solved the problem.  I found a recipe for Lemon Chocolate Chip Cookies that satisfied both of them.

The original recipe, found here, didn’t state a temperature at which to bake the cookies.  I baked them at 350 degrees and they were done after about 10 minutes.  For me, the recipe made 4 dozen cookies…I do tend to make my cookies a little smaller though.

Lemon Chocolate Chip Cookies

10 T butter

1/2 c sugar

1/2 t grated lemon rind

1 T lemon juice

1 egg

1 c flour

1/4 t salt

3/4 c semi-sweet chocolate morsels

Combine the butter, sugar and lemon rind in a large bowl'; mix until light and creamy.  Add the lemon juice and the egg; mix well.  In a smaller bowl, combine the flour and salt.  Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix well.  Add the chocolate chips and chill for 1 hour.  Drop by teaspoonfuls  on a cookie sheet.  Bake for 12 minutes or until the cookies have a deep golden edge.  Cool on wire racks. 

With the combination of lemon rind and lemon juice, I expected a heavy lemon taste.  I was wrong…the delicate lemon flavor superbly accented the chocolate taste.  In other words…these were delicious!  Oh Yeah!!

You can just get a glimpse of some of my Valentine decorations behind the plate of cookies…I’ll show them in a later post. 

I’m linking up with Lisa over at Sweet As Sugar Cookies for Sweets for a Saturday and Mary over at Boogieboard Cottage for Masterpiece Monday..  Why don’t you come on over and join us?

DG