Lemon Raspberry Swedish Cream Wafer Cookies

Christmas means Cookies! Do you ever have a recipe that you remember from your childhood that you wish you could find? This is one of those for me, someone brought these cookies to a Ward Party and I thought of them for probably 60 years. Well FOUND IT! These were as wonderful as I remember.

Lemon Raspberry Swedish Cream Wafer Cookies

Make about 40 sandwich cookies

2 Cups All-purpose Flour

¼ teaspoon Salt

1 Tablespoon Powdered Sugar

1 teaspoon Lemon Zest

1 Cup Butter, cold and cut into 1-inch cubes

1/3 Cup Heavy Cream

Extra sugar for coating cookies

Raspberry Buttercream Filling

½ Cup butter, room temp.

1 ¾ Cup powdered sugar

2 Tablespoon Raspberry Jam

1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice

2 teaspoons Lemon Zest

Zest two lemons and set aside.

Place Flour, Salt, Powdered Sugar, 1 teaspoon Lemon Zest into a food processor fitted with bottom blade. Add cold butter cubes. Pulse until pea-sized crumbs.

Add the cream and process just until combined. Dump out and form into two disks, wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 1-2 hours.

Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.

Place about ½ cup sugar in a small bowl.

Sprinkle extra flour over a counter-top and roll one of the disks out to about 1/8 inch thick. Use a 1 ½ inch round cookie cutter and cut into disks. (I used a clean pill bottle).

Do the same with other disk of dough.

Place each cookie into the sugar and flip to get sugar onto both sides of the cookie.

Place each cookie onto an un-greased cookie sheet. Poke each cookie with a fork to keep them flat.

You can place the cookies fairly close together as they do not spread.

Bake for 10 minutes or just until the edges start to turn brown. Move cookies to a wire rack to cool.

Some will break, just enjoy eating those.

Beat the frosting ingredients together, you may have to add more Jam to reach the correct consistency.

Place a small dollop of frosting on the underside of a cookie and sandwich together with another

cookie.

Store covered and enjoy.

**You could easily half this recipe.

*To make Gluten Free use One for One Gluten Free Flour.

Jan Dairy Keen – Home of the Train