Soft and Fluffy Blueberry Lemon Cookies

Cookies are not really my thing to bake but when I saw this recipe, I just gotta try it. Cake flour was used to make these cookies instead of all-purpose flour. I have used cake flour in baking a few times before so I know when the recipe title said ‘soft and fluffy’, it will be soft and fluffy indeed. Cake flour is a highly specialized type of wheat flour, intended for use in making cakes, cookies, and other delicate baked goods and it has a low protein content. Protein promotes the production of gluten, which can make baked goods more tough. Cake flour is very finely milled, which keeps baked goods from getting heavy but still starchy enough to hold large amounts of fat and sugar to avoid collapsing.

Now,  blueberry and lemon … never had the combination with the baked goodies I have made before but somehow, the flavors blended in well with the buttery and vanilla-y cookies. And we really enjoyed them.

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs, room temperature
• 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
• Zest of one lemon
• Juice of one lemon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 3 1/4 cups cake flour
• 1 1/2 cups blueberries

Method

1.   In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  Add the eggs one at a time, and beat after each addition.  Add the vanilla, lemon zest and lemon juice and beat to incorporate.

2.   In another bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. Slowly add the dry ingredients into the batter.  Scrape down the bowl as needed and mix until incorporated.  Fold in the blueberries gently as to not break them.

3.   Allow the dough to cool in the refrigerator for at least an hour and up to overnight.

4.   Preheat oven to 180C degrees.  Use a small scoop (about 1 tbsp size) and place rounded mounds of dough on a cookie sheet lined with parchment or foil.  Bake for 11-14 minutes until the bottoms look slightly browned.Enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee!
Recipe from Baker Bettie.

08 Mar This entry was published on March 8, 2012 at 2:16 pm. It’s filed under baking, Cookies, food, recipes, Sweet treats and tagged baking, Butter, cake flour, Cookie, Flour, food, Lemon, pure vanilla extract, Sugar, wheat flour, Zest (ingredient). Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.