Lobster Lemon Sugar Cookie Place Cards

For Popie's 80th Birthday, we had a seafood themed party. He was a shellfish business owner in NYC, so when my mom asked me to do place cards, I knew they had to be place cookies. We found an adorable lobster cookie cutter at Sur La Table, so I made my Famous Sugar Cookies like always, but flavored them with more lemon zest and extract to match the seafood theme. I used royal icing so they would travel well, and silver drages as the eyes. Thanks to Dan and JJ for modeling them :)

My Famous Sugar Cookies!

1 1/2 cups butter1

1/2 cups granulated sugar

1/2 cup powdered sugar

4 eggs

1 tsp. pure lemon extract

1/2 tsp. almond extract

1 tbsp. lemon zest

5 cups flour

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

Powdered sugar, for rolling

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Cream butter and sugars in a mixer for 5 minutes.

Add in eggs one at a time, mixing thoroughly.

Add in lemon, almond, and lemon zest.

Sift in flour, baking powder, and salt a little at a time.

Do not over mix, this process should take about one minute.

Chill dough for up to a week in the fridge, or roll out and cut right away.