Lauren’s Journal Entries: Delicious Italian Ricotta Cookies, Elegant Christmas Tablescape, and Delightful Breakfast Company

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Buckeye Cookie Recipe:

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2 1/2 cups of JIF Peanut Butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla
7 1/2 cups of powdered sugar

In kitchen mixer we started by mixing butter, peanut butter, and vanilla. Add in powdered sugar in 3 parts. Once mixed scoop with small cookie scoop on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Roll into balls and flash freeze for about 10 minutes chilled. Then dip

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Italian Ricotta Cookie:

1 cup unsalted butter
1 3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp. lemon zest
15 oz ricotta whole milk
1 Tbsp vanilla
2 eggs
3 1/2 cups flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder

In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking powder. and salt then set aside. In our mixer whip together butter, sugar, lemon zest until pale and fluffy. Mix in ricotta and vanilla then add one egg at a time. Slowly add in dry ingredients until combined. Cover and place in refrigerator to chill 2 hours. Once chilled scoop 1 Tbsp using scoop and shape into balls on a lined cookie sheet with parchment paper. Bake at 350 degrees 12-14 minutes until bottoms are golden. Cool on baking rack Once cool dip cookies in glaze add sprinkles.

Glaze:

1 Tbsp butter melted
3 3/4 cups powdered sugar
2 TBSP fresh lemon juice
1 tsp. vanilla
4-6 TBSP Milk.

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I know we had a fabulous thanksgiving i went over to my sister kathy’s enjoyed the full spread and of course some pasta and meatball because you gotta have pasta and meatball on thanksgiving i also made rolls which are great for all those leftovers so

That’s it i just uh hung out and did a little shopping online i really didn’t even go out on black friday you know that’s a big shopping weekend with small business saturday yesterday was cyber monday but i feel like the deals were kind of consistent so i am happy to say that i

Started the shopping and we also had a little uh light dusting of snow so the white stuff arrived it is melting uh but you can see remnants of it out there in the trees and um this weekend we have breakfast with santa at the lake club so we

Haven’t done that with the family since before covid and i’m really excited um that’ll be nice either saturday or sunday i got to look at my calendar but the food is always amazing and they just have so many like crafts and things for the kids and the kids just love it so i

Will be doing that and that’s it i am heading over actually today kicks off our first day of the christmas cookies and kathy called me she’s like we’re making buckeyes today i said i’ll be over love buckeyes those are just a great cookie to have and i thought i would bring the camera

Along with me and maybe share the recipe with you not sure if i’ve ever vlogged that one before and then throughout the vlog you may be seeing another recipe if not this time definitely next time and i know we have to start with the food too we already have a date stamped down

With my sister renee as well that we’re going to make our homemade pasta so you may see that on a future vlog i usually share that every year and they’re just the cup of telly is delicious all right so i need to get over there and i will take you guys along

All right we’re starting our buckeyes we’ve got three sticks of butter here in the kitchen aid mixer we’re gonna mix this make it nice and creamy and then we’ll add in the rest of the ingredients uh which is peanut butter and a little bit of vanilla and then powdered sugar

All right we’ve got two and a quarter cups of our jiff peanut butter and a little something extra special that we put in that a lot of recipes don’t and that is vanilla we’ve got a teaspoon of our pensies vanilla and it just gives it that really good

Flavor now once this is mixed the next step will be adding uh seven two pounds of powdered sugar so that’s what seven and a half cups seven and a half cups all right we’re starting to add in the powdered sugar probably in about what three or four parts three

The boss says three it’s three all right here’s our batter and we are using a small cookie scoop just scoop them out and then we’re going to go ahead and roll them and one batch gives us about 120 buckeyes look how pretty our buckeyes are all right so we’re

Going to flash freeze these just for about 10 minutes just to get them cold uh you don’t want them frozen because if you put them in the chocolate and the chocolate cracks we’ve learned that so just to get them cold and then they will be ready for dipping

Okay we’ve got our large bag of melting discs merkins we’ve got the paramount crystals those we only add into the melting pot if the chocolate gets too thick and we’ve got our first batch here in the pot ready to go all right you guys so with the toothpick i’m picking up the buckeye

And then over here told my sister she doesn’t like to do this part so it’s all working out today and then just kind of drop it like that and then we’ll go back and fix all the little holes on top all right so i’ve dipped two trays just

Kind of dip the whole tray let it set then you want to go back with your finger that’s a little damp and just kind of smooth out the top where you see the toothpick hole and i did have a few drop in the chocolate so but it doesn’t matter what they look

Like because they all taste amazing and those of you that love peanut butter i do you will love these all right i just thought i would show you guys my sister’s kitchen table that is all set up for baking and cooking so let me show you because she legit has it going on

All right so once my sister gets on a roll with the baking and cooking she just goes for it she’s got everything out and ready uh her favorites are the pampered chef uh spatulas and have you guys seen these i love these little spatulas plus they

Make little cute gifts um for the baker and of course our good vanilla a lot of these measuring cups for my mom and grams along with the kitchenaid mixer and then with about 15 different cookies that we’re gonna make or i should say she’s gonna make i’m gonna assist

Uh we like to use uh these little scoops uh because we like bite-sized cookies i mean come on after eating all the holiday food and there’s so much time put into baking we don’t want to waste cookies so it’s better just to make them bite size

And of course everything she gets is big and in bulk these are great too these pampered chef um mixing bowls i have those and the melts are of course our pizzelle machine and our cavitelli maker and then we live by a lot of amish and mennonite

So we don’t really need to make the hardtack candy we cheat and just buy it already done and then over here is the caramel for the caramel cups toffee for score cookies and a bunch of sprinkles so i would say we’re good to go for the christmas season

All right so when our buckeyes are done we just put them in a container with wax paper and honestly you guys we’ve had these in the freezer for up to three months and they’re perfect they taste just like the day that you made them so i just thought i would share that little

Tip with you we’re gonna wrap things up here soon um i think i’m gonna head home and think about some dinner i wanted to show you guys a friend of my sisters that makes these how cute is this i think my sister said she’s moving it though maybe to the front door and

That’s what my thought was i thought this would look really good anyway on any door actually but good morning everyone it is wednesday december 1st i’m about to head out here for my routine hair appointment and i’ve been putting together a spray to put on

My mom’s grave and i think it came out kind of cute i need to tweak it once i get there but i thought i would show you i decided to shop my own stash because i had a bunch of decorative picks left over they do accumulate over the years from crafting

Or i should say my attempt at crafting but i put together this spray and i need to tweak it once i get there i usually put it in the vases on each side and then i just play around with it but i love the bow and the sparkle out

Of the ornaments and then i also have this real fun pick so i don’t know i might add this one too but i think it came out good and i usually leave like fall thanksgiving theme on the grave until after thanksgiving and then obviously i switch it out so

I will feel much better once i get this on and i think my mom would really like it i love coming here every year at christmas time this is where i get my greens so we’re gonna head on into the italian market and stock up What a feeling now it’s time for christmas and christmas is my favorite time of year it’s beginning to look like all my wishes are coming true that’s why i cheer i’ve been busy decking the halls i’ve been kind too big and small and now it’s time to have a merry holiday

What a feeling when it’s time for christmas please sing a carol and we’ll bring it here I guess that’s spring and summer they’re all fine but i’ve been waiting for the season that’s mine so let it come yeah let it come [Applause] I can see the snowflakes fall i can hear the sleigh bells call they’re saying it’s time to have a merry holiday what a feeling now it’s time for christmas and christmas is my favorite time of year it’s beginning to look like all my wishes are coming true that’s why i cheer

I’ve been busy well you know what they say about going to the store when you’re hungry so let me show you a couple things that i brought back i don’t know about you guys but i love a vanilla wafer they had so many different flavors of these

I love anything with lemon so i got that got the vanilla and the cocoa they also had a cappuccino that looked really good so can’t wait to try these and then of course the confetti which is always a staple item the reason that i went was to get the escarole

You know when we make our soup this is just it just makes it so much easier than having to clean it it’s already washed frozen ready to go we can just dump it right into the pot of course the other ingredients are homemade and then i had to get uh some anna soil

For the pizzelles and the titels and these are hot pepper now my i grew up eating these we make ours thinner in the shape of a pretzel i am trying to locate my grandma’s recipe uh to make these this was something that me and my sisters have talked about

Doing it’s just like one of those last things that i feel like i need to do to carry on all of our traditions throughout the holiday season so that is on my list if i don’t get to it this christmas i definitely want to try to make them and duplicate it for

Easter but these are so addicting i also wanted to show you i added another christmas decoration i couldn’t pass up these skates they’re adorable i found these at target you guys i think they were only like ten dollars they’re such nice quality they’re like ceramic and

I don’t know they just fit so well with my theme so i’m really excited about those i am so excited i just realized that tonight is the lighting of the christmas tree in new york city rockefeller center we watch that every year uh i just i love it so we will

Definitely be tuning in and speaking of new york city did any of you happen to watch the special that was on with tony bennett and lady gaga every time i think about it i get chills when she sang happy birthday to him i literally cried it just

The whole thing was amazing it brought back so many memories uh for me as a little girl uh staying at my grandparents house and you know my family was always really big into music um i mean my dad was in a band he played sax my grandfather played trumpet um a

Lot of the relatives played and music was just always like really important and remember the big console uh you kind of lifted up and it was the record player in the console my grandfather would play tony bennett frank sinatra and i it just brings back so many memories he blasts the music and

I don’t know i just absolutely loved it the whole thing it just it gave me chills and so i’m sure it’s streaming online if you missed it you definitely it’s a must you need to watch it all right vito it’s time for us to think about dinner

So i’ll check back with you guys maybe a little later Welcome back everyone it is thursday december 2nd i’ve actually already been out of the house and back this morning because i had my mammogram so friendly reminder if you haven’t got your mammogram yet you want to do so you got a few weeks left uh thoroughly enjoyed the lighting of

The tree the tree is gorgeous in new york um and the music that went along with it and then kelly clarkson had a special one after that so we were able to enjoy both and you know once they like that tree in new york it’s officially game on

I mean after thanksgiving it is too i would say uh so today speaking of christmas i need to run out and get some ornaments for my gift exchange with my girlfriends we do this every year i just need to figure out i think two of them switched up their theme and i try

To get ornaments that fit the tree and the theme so that is definitely on my list to do uh but hopefully they’re not picked over i was thinking about going to petite um my sister and i are going to be baking but i don’t think we’re going to be

Doing that today i think that’s on the agenda for tomorrow so you guys may see some more recipes from me and that’s really about it um so i’ll be sure to take you guys along and we’ll see what else today brings well i just got a little visit from karen

Actually i got a delivery today so i called karen i said you have to come over here i don’t want to repeat myself because i know you guys already heard about our new arrivals for the boutique on vlogmas day two but i am wearing these gorgeous hoops um i don’t know if

They’ll still be available by the time you see this but the good thing is is i can always order more and i’m also wearing uh this gorgeous uh prayer warrior necklace that has the serenity prayer on it it’s a gorgeous layering piece and we got a beautiful shirt jacket in

And a sweater and hopefully things are going to continue to come in each week because shipping has definitely been challenging this year i think everybody’s pretty much aware of that uh for those of you that have done online shopping and just you know companies just trying to get

The merchandise so i appreciate your patience and all but go to the twoorkids.com shopper boutique and you will see all the new stuff all right so i think i am going to head out now and pick up those ornaments thank goodness i called my friend because it turns out that i only need

One ornament for the exchange i was getting confused between the amount of gifts i had to buy and we play a little game with the ornament um exchange it’s a lot of fun everybody does have a different theme uh we’ve got traditional colors of christmas neutral blue silver gold

But then i saw this one that lights up with the snowflake on it i mean this would go with anything but then for those that are decorated in the traditional red look at the scenery on this i thought this was so pretty i cannot make a decision they’re all so pretty

Who wouldn’t love the wine glass this one’s really pretty too i don’t know i’m leaning towards this one and maybe the red one i am back home and thinking about dinner probably something easy like soup from the freezer but i’ve really been craving a chopped salad and ever since i saw

This little concoction i thought you know what i’m gonna make that tonight the key is chopping everything up very small i had a little help with these scissors these work great especially on the lettuce and then you can add protein to this if you want just pretty much whatever you

Like i just went with iceberg lettuce the kalamata olives obviously cucumber red onion green pepper roma tomatoes feta cheese and for a little kick we got some peppercini and then i am going to show you the homemade dressing and then i’ll give it a toss all right i have equal parts

Olive oil and red wine vinegar some salt some pepper i have oregano garlic powder and then a squirt of dijon mustard and i’m just gonna whisk it if you have a mason jar you can put it in that and shake it up and pour it on i cannot wait

To eat this i mean look at the beautiful colors of this looks amazing good morning everyone it’s friday december 3rd so i’m just enjoying my morning coffee this morning and thought i would check in before i head out i just love these festive christmas mugs and this was

Gifted to me uh by one of you lovely subscribers last christmas so thank you uh today is baking day two over at kathy’s we have a whole list of cookies well she has a whole list of cookies i just again assist but i think today one of the cookies or

One of the recipes i’m going to share with you is the italian ricotta cookies they are delicious we have them at my nephew’s wedding uh you know the cookie table’s a big thing around here so literally i think this past year i’ve had every single cookie with all the weddings

But this is a favorite um i don’t know what else like i said there’s a whole list so i need to run to the store i got to pick up a couple things thought i would check in so i will see you over there all right we are starting the cookies

These are the italian ricotta cookies and we’re gonna put our dry ingredients in a separate bowl here so we’ve got three and a half cups of all-purpose flour two and a half teaspoons of baking powder and three quarter teaspoon of salt and you want to whisk that together

I’ve got my teaspoon of lemon zest it smells amazing uh 15 ounces of ricotta this is whole milk you want to use that or fresh and then over here we’ve got our butter and that is one cup of unsalted butter you want to use and we’ve got our sugar one and three

Quarter cups and then we’ll be adding in a tablespoon of vanilla and two eggs and we are going to get this all mixed you guys these are gonna be delicious all right we just added the lemon zest in to the butter and sugar oh my goodness the aroma is amazing and you

Guys i know this mixer is really loud um but my sister and i cannot part with it this was our mother’s mixer it’s about 20 years old so just bear with us here all right our mixture was pale and a little fluffy so we’ve added in the ricotta

And now the vanilla we’ll mix this and then you want to add one egg at a time all right our dough is ready for the refrigerator so you want to cover and chill for about two hours you guys i have to tell you this raw cookie dough is right up there

With the chocolate chip cookie dough i have the honors of cleaning this off so good all right while our batter is chilling for our other cookies we are starting with the score cookies and we’re actually uh splitting this recipe in half so i just thought i would

Show it to you i’m going to put all this in the description section for you anyway um but these are also very very good especially with this really good heath toffee so if you kind of like that a toffee you’ll love these cookies all right we just mixed up both sugars

Brown sugar white sugar vanilla butter and in comes the eggs just added in our dry ingredients which was the flour uh baking soda and salt and in goes the toffee and no we don’t stir them we just kind of dump them in all right we’ve scooped our cookies and

They are ready to bake at 350 for 10 11 minutes if you guys notice we left some room in between because they tend to flatten and spread out and parchment paper is a must with these because they’re very very sticky our first batch of score cookies is out

Of the oven so you can see how these are a very flat cookie and you just want to leave them on the parchment paper kind of drag it onto your rack and let them cool for a few minutes before you remove them the other thing i wanted to say is we get our

Toffee from the amish if you don’t have access to that you can just get the heath toffee from the store it will have a little bit of chocolate on it but they are just as good in the cookie all right next up our grandma’s butter balls which we are doubling this recipe

I’ll tell you we are on a roll today baking these cookies all right notice um how white and creamy our batter is this is just butter and powdered sugar and now we’re adding in our two teaspoons of vanilla because we’re doubling the recipe you just want to

Make sure this is white and creamy before you add in the vanilla all right we’re ready for our four cups of sifted flour all right we’re ready to add our nuts we’ve got two cups of walnuts going in all right these require a scoop and then a roll

And then they’ll be ready for the oven these take about 15 to 18 minutes at 350. all right our butter balls just came out of the oven they’re nice and warm so what we want to do is roll those in powdered sugar while they’re warm these are a dryer

Cookie but i feel like these are just really good with a cup of hot coffee or tea or even a cold glass of milk look how pretty our butter balls are so after we roll them in powdered sugar when we’re all done we go back over and

We sift a little bit more powdered sugar on them they taste so good all right this is our batter for the italian ricotta cookies which we are using another scoop you have to scoop them out and these require a rolling as well now these say to make them about a tablespoon

So we did go up on the size of our scoop all right these are ready for the oven 350 12 to 14 minutes you guys this dough is very sticky so that’s why you need to chill before definitely recommend using the parchment paper all right we are starting our icing for

The ricotta cookies and we’ve got one tablespoon of butter we did add a little extra butter we’re gonna put three and three quarter cup of powdered sugar uh two tablespoons of fresh lemon juice a teaspoon of vanilla extract and four to six tablespoons of milk i’m going to

Put everything in here and whisk it together all right this glaze should be probably the consistency of what you would find on top of a sugar cookie our cookies are out some of them are cool so we are going to start icing them now and putting the sprinkles on

All right you just want to do a dip and then immediately put the sprinkles on look how pretty the cookies look all right now these need to cool for a while i did get a little crazy with the icing uh you can see some of my icing has

Dripped but we’ll just clean those up once we plate them at christmas they’re gonna look so festive and pretty and the best part is you guys these taste amazing these are like one of my favorites absolutely love them so we are wrapping up baking it’s been

Quite a day that’s all i’m going to say but we’re really pleased with everything we got done so i hope you guys enjoyed all the recipes i was able to share welcome back it is saturday december 4th i almost couldn’t remember what day it was all right so yesterday uh that was a

Full day of baking but i was very happy uh to help out my sister because she really does the brunt of all the baking and i usually do the pit cells because she doesn’t have the patience to sit with the iron so that’s usually my job always

But all the cookies were delicious and i really hope you guys enjoyed uh those recipes so today there’s a few things i just wanted to share with you uh that came in and you want to know what i forgot forgot that i purchased um that advent calendar from sam’s club

That had like all the chocolates in a couple other things so i’m already four days behind on that so i thought i would show you that and then a few things um that came in from amazon uh that i’m really liking so let me show you all right the first thing are these

Wooden organizers i’ve literally looked at these for so long and i finally purchased them and i love that you can just it keeps the drawer organized and it’s easy to get the baggie uh so as you see i need to fill my court and my snack but i’m loving these they

Fit so nice they’re really nice quality like i said you’re not fumbling around with all those boxes uh so these do a really nice job of keeping everything organized the other thing i wanted to share with you that i’ve been looking at it’s got really good reviews finally i ordered

Them are these wine glasses very modern look but i love a wine glass that’s like thin on the top and i just love the shape of them i thought they were really cool and then when i opened the box this little wine pairing guide was

In there and i thought well how great is that you know for us that don’t know what to pair with what this definitely helps and it’s a great gift idea and i thought well who wouldn’t like to get maybe a nice set of wine glasses with maybe the electric opener or nice

Bottle of wine or a wine stopper and then the other company that i love that i wanted to show you is this these are real these are really nice wine glasses sometimes you can find these at home goods this particular well i had a set they

Were gifted to me by our aunt and uncle they have special meaning behind them sadly i broke one uh this past week and i literally cried and i know you guys it’s just a wine glass but again it’s who gifted it to me and the meaning behind it so luckily i still

Have one but really nice quality love the shape and it’s thin on top the next thing i wanted to show you uh well first of all i got to give a shout out to candace uh one of the lovely ladies that came to visit karen and i

She recommended this and candace i love this book thanks so much i purchased this for a family member can’t say who i’ll be shipping this out as a christmas gift but uh she’s really into making charcuterie boards and kind of new to it and she’s been buying all these boards i thought

Oh this book is perfect for her the cheese plate that will change your life and this has been a hot hot hot book because you know charcuterie is a big thing what so much great information like the game day plates the nice to meet you

Picnic to go i mean it just breaks it all down the italian countryside look how beautiful so tons of information on what to put on a board and how to create it so that’s another great gift to pair with the wine and let me show you now the advent calendar

I was impressed with day one and these are just so fun because you get to try different things there are four little goodies and number one a truffle a giradelli a caramel a shortbread and a popcorn and then the rest of the days day two again oh this one was a harry

And david truffle and then day three was the gourmet popcorn and day four short bedroom so we’ll see lots of little goodies i forgot to show you guys my festive nails that i had done the other day gina did a good job said a little christmas tree

Did the green and gold it’s been a long time since i’ve had green and then she did a couple other crystals so very fun for tomorrow because tomorrow is breakfast with santa at the lake club there are 16 of us going tomorrow the kids are really excited

So i’ll be sure to take you along and scan that a little bit um i haven’t been there yet since you know all the decorations at the lake club are out and the tree is always beautiful and you’ll be seeing this probably on karen’s vlogmas or you already did because i

Know that she will be there as well all right there’s one other thing i want to share with you i wanted to share with you something that you could do to create a beautiful tablescape this holiday season without spending a lot of money and i just love floating candles i think they’re

Gorgeous on a table i literally shopped my own stash for this and did this in literally minutes and you can do it too all right so i had some extra vases that were just laying around underneath the kitchen sink i pulled those out cleaned

Them up and i have some pine here that i cut you can get this right from your backyard there’s always some laying around at the tree farm i added some pine cones and water and look how beautiful that is really uh just goes right in with the theme of the

Winter kind of wonderland so that’s a bigger vase and then over here i have a thinner base and in this one i did the winter berries and the pine and look how gorgeous that is looks beautiful on the table creates that nice ambiance that we love

And i don’t know i just i like it you can add a bow around it there’s just so much you can do you can literally add anything so i just thought i would share that with you and then when i was cleaning out the drawer with my new

Organizers i feel like i hit the jackpot because i had these place cards i think karen and i when we were down in houston i think that’s when i purchased these and forgot that i had them so i can write the name right here and just place it right over

On the plate and then i also have these banners and these are paper so you know what you can even do this if you’re setting up using paper products we’ve done that in the past as well and it looks just as pretty so i hope you guys enjoyed that

All right i thought i’d share my outfit of the night with you we’re just gonna run and grab a bite to eat with some friends all right so i am wearing the milan hoops these are on our boutique uh from the b style box this beautiful ivory cardigan and necklace

I think the t-shirt i got at target i got it a couple months ago and forgot i had it uh the jeans are democracy democracy skinny jeans and then the boots are from target uh i got a six in these i think i needed a five and a half they’re a little roomy

But i got a thick sock on and you know what for twenty three dollars i thought what the heck i’m keeping them and then i’ve got the buddha girl uh bracelets on and that is my outfit of the night so i hope you guys are having a great evening

And i will check back with you tomorrow breakfast with santa at the lake club good morning everyone it’s sunday december 5th we are heading out to breakfast with santa and i thought i would share my outfit with you today which is the nordstrom sweater dress that i purchased watched probably back

When they had the anniversary sale so i’m wearing that and then i’m wearing just um the knee-high boots with it so that is it i’m excited to see the family so we’re gonna head there now um it’s gonna be all beautifully decorated for christmas and i’m excited so i’ll see you there hey

Santa the city is covered in snow tonight where did my love go santa i’m waiting for him but he’s nowhere inside and all of the presents are still by the tree they don’t mean nothing to this here with me if you know where it is please give him a ride

And i will wait here by the candle like girl here’s the love is all i need So please Hey It was a wonderful day today with breakfast with santa the kids they just had a blast the food was amazing and i just i love this day it just it was so nice to be with my family and i think i’m gonna go out on a

High note now and wrap things up i really hope that you guys enjoyed everything i was able to share this week i feel like it was kind of a lot but we’re making some progress and i hope that you guys are enjoying the holiday season with family and friends

And everything that this season brings all the festivities and fun uh i appreciate each and every one of you and thanks so much for coming along with me uh take care everyone enjoy and i will see you in a few weeks thanks again bye-bye happy holidays .
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Italian Ricotta Cookie:

1 cup unsalted butter
1 3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp. lemon zest
15 oz ricotta whole milk
1 Tbsp vanilla
2 eggs
3 1/2 cups flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder

In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking powder. and salt then set aside. In our mixer whip together butter, sugar, lemon zest until pale and fluffy. Mix in ricotta and vanilla then add one egg at a time. Slowly add in dry ingredients until combined. Cover and place in refrigerator to chill 2 hours. Once chilled scoop 1 Tbsp using scoop and shape into balls on a lined cookie sheet with parchment paper. Bake at 350 degrees 12-14 minutes until bottoms are golden. Cool on baking rack Once cool dip cookies in glaze add sprinkles.

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3 3/4 cups powdered sugar
2 TBSP fresh lemon juice
1 tsp. vanilla
4-6 TBSP Milk.

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