Here in Maine we celebrate the change in seasons by taking advantage of the bountiful foods available to us for harvesting. When blueberry season hits, the flavor starts popping up all over the place: in coffees, cakes, pies, jams and more. These lemon blueberry cream cookies are light, refreshing and celebrate one of Maine’s most popular flavors, the Maine wild blueberry.
Check out all our United States of Cookies recipes here. Recipe and photo courtesy of Melissa from How To This and That.
1 tsp
Vanilla Extract
or Blueberry for more flavor
1 tsp
Milk
3 cups + 1/2 cup
Powdered Sugar
1/2 cup
Frozen Blueberries
thawed and strained
Instructions
Cookies
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until smooth.
Add egg, vanilla, lemon juice and zest. Mix until combined.
Sprinkle flour evenly over egg mixture.
Sprinkle remaining dry ingredients over flour.
Mix until fully combined.
Lightly dust a solid surface with flour.
Turn dough out and sprinkle with flour.
Roll to about 1/3 inch thick. Cut with a 2-inch cookie cutter.
Place on sheet pan.
Bake for about 10 minutes or until edges are lightly golden.
Transfer to wire rack to cool.
Filling:
Cream butter, extract, milk and 1/2 cup of the powdered sugar until smooth. Gradually add remaining powdered sugar until buttercream is fully combined. Frosting should be thicker than normal.
Stir in blueberries.
Add filling to pastry bag and pipe onto cookie bottoms.