This cookie recipe could possibly be the easiest recipe I've made yet. Three ingredients before the customization, and a short baking time until nearly instant gratification. Also, this are one of the few cookie recipes I know of where the baked cookies tastes better than the dough. The only downside of these is they kind of need to be doctored, hence the lemon poppyseed. Next time I'm going to mix a bit of vanilla and brown sugar and use that in place of the white sugar. Should be great!
Lemon Poppyseed Cookies, from Anyone Can Cook, by Better Homes and Gardens
Ingredients:
1 1/4 c. flour
3 T. sugar (or a mixture or vanilla and brown sugar, perhaps?)
1/2 c. butter
a generous sprinkling of poppyseeds
1/2 T. lemon peel, or to taste
Directions:
Mix the flour and sugar together, along with the poppyseeds and lemon peel, then cut in the butter with a pastry cutter or a knife. Roll out the cookies to desired thickness, very thin if you like shortbread crispy, slighly thicker if you prefer it crumbly and slightly moist. Cut in traditional rounds, simple squares, or fun shapes. Bake in a 325°F oven for 20-25 minutes or until bottoms just start to brown. Cool on a wire rack.
This makes slightly under two dozen cookies. Enjoy!