i make these really good cookies i can't eat.

They smell amazing. and look fucking awesome. and i have indeed tasted them. they are good.

 Lemon sugar cookies: this makes a lot of cookies. get ready for cookies. i hope you want cookies.

4 1/2 cups of white pastry flour or all purpose flour (you will need some extra to roll out the dough)
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 sticks of butter (unsalted....but if you use salted then cut down on the additional salt).
2 cups of sugar
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
1 scant tsp of vanilla extract
1/8 tsp of nutmeg and cinnimon (big pinch)
dash of allspice
zest from 3 lemons

cream the butter and sugar in one bowl. sift dry ingredients {including the spices} together in another bowl. add eggs to the creamed butter and sugar. mix well. start to add flour one cup at a time to the butter sugar egg mix, also at the same time add the milk in bits with the vanilla, add zest, and then when all the flour and milk have been added and the cookie dough looks like cookie dough, cover and chill that dough ball. at least an hour.
grease some sheets and preheat oven to 375

when the dough is chilled cut the ball into two parts.
flour the work surface, and the rolling pin.
roll out the ball of dough (i would say about1/4''thick) and cut with cookie cutter of your choice. i generally use a 2'' circle. but go with what you have. put em on the sheet and bake one sheet at a time. 8-10min. keep an eye on these guys they get brown quick! ok so take them out of the oven when you start to see a browning happening around the bottom edge.
take cookies off the tray, let them cool on a rack and dust with confectioners sugar.
light and lemony!