Lemon Lavender Shortbread

Ugly Duckling Bakery

Lemon Lavender Shortbread

Ugly Duckling Bakery

These lemon lavender shortbread cookies are easy, buttery, and full of bright lemon and floral flavor.

Lemon Lavender Shortbread

Ugly Duckling Bakery

Ingredients sugar butter lavender lemon zest vanilla flour salt

To make lemon lavender shortbread cookies, cream 1 ounce of sugar for every 2 ounces of butter. Then 3 ounces of flour.  Easy as 1 2 3!

Lemon Lavender Shortbread Tips and Tricks

Roll the shortbread and cut with a cookie cutter. Or form the cookie dough into a log and slice off cookies from the freezer as you want them.

Lemon Lavender Shortbread Tips and Tricks

You can space shortbread like these lemon lavender cookies them quite closely on your baking sheet. That's because chilled shortbread won't spread.

Lemon Lavender Shortbread Tips and Tricks

Bake only until your shortbread cookies are beginning to brown. They'll keep firming up as they cool.

Lemon Lavender Shortbread Tips and Tricks

Love shortbread?

Use the same base recipe plus some food coloring to make rainbow shortbread cookies. How fun are these?

Love shortbread?

How about classic Linzer cookies made with almond shortbread cookies and filled with raspberry jam.

Love lemon?

How about a blackberry lemon loaf cake made with a lemon syrup and a lemon glaze. Is that enough lemon?