Vegan Meyer Lemon Poppyseed Shortbread

Instructions

1. Add flour, cornstarch, almond flour and salt to a medium bowl, and dawdle to mix. Train aside.
2. Mix butter and granulated sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the breeze attachment. Zest 1 1/2 lemons into the bowl, reserving the closing 1/2 of un-zested lemon for the glaze. Cream the butter, sugar and zest on medium-high amble till light and fluffy, 2 to a jiffy. Add vanilla and lemon extracts and beat on medium amble till well blended, scraping the bowl as wanted.
3. Add the flour combination to the creamed butter and beat on low amble till blended. Scrape the bowl and fold as soon as or twice to be sure every little thing is well blended. Wrap dough in plastic wrap, flatten true into a disk, and relax till company, as a minimal 1 hour, and up to a couple days.
4. Location oven racks in lower-center & upper-center of oven, then preheat to 350 degrees. On a flour-dusted parchment paper (especially well-known for dough in hotter environments), roll shortbread 1/4” thin. Don’t grief about the consume of a range of flour, you would possibly well possibly well mud off excess later after they’re chilled. Cut out cookies with a 2” round cutter and knead collectively the scraps to develop a few extra. Relax the cookies on a baking sheet in the freezer till very company, as a minimal 10 minutes. Grime off the excess flour if wanted.
5. Bake till cookies true originate to flip light-golden on the perimeters and golden beneath (about 18 to 22 min.) switching the baking sheets from entrance to attend and high to backside midway via baking time. Maintain the glaze whereas the cookies bake, zesting 1/2 of reserved lemon true into a small bowl and mixing closing ingredients with a dawdle till quiet.
6. Let the cookies cool for a few minutes on the baking sheets, and switch to a wire rack location over a parchment or silicone mat on a baking sheet. Score a cookie and the consume of the attend of a small spoon, spread a beneficiant teaspoon of glaze on a cookie, letting any excess drip onto the subsequent cookie. Repeat till the full cookies are glazed. Cool fully and let the glaze location. Cookies will preserve in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week. Revel in!