Gingerbread Squares With Creamy Lemon Glaze

Foodista Cookbook Entry

Category: Desserts & Sweets | Blog URL: http://mothermayhave.com/2010/01/10/gingerbread-squares-with-creamy-lemon-glaze/

This recipe was entered in The Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook contest, a compilation of the world’s best food blogs which was published in Fall 2010.


Photo: Kathy-Ann Hart
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Ingredients

1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury refrigerated gingerbread cookie dough
1 package (8 ounce) American Neufchâtel cheese or cream cheese
zest of three lemons
1 1/2 cups to 2 powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 egg white

Preparation

1
Bring cookie dough to room temperature on counter.
2
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
3
Roll out room temperature cookie dough on back of a 4 sided cookie sheet to ¼ to ½ inch thickness.
4
Bake until set about 25 – 30 minutes.
5
Allow to cool before cutting around the sides of the large, rectangular cookie, removing the dough that may have fallen over the sides.
6
Remove carefully to a cooling rack and allow to fully cool.
7
In the meantime, combine cream cheese, lemon zest, milk, egg and powdered sugar using an electric beater or a blender.
8
Pour mixture into a pan and heat until it just boils.
9
Remove from heat and allow to cool fully to room temperature.
10
When cookie is cool place on wax or parchment paper on a tray.
11
Pour completely cooled lemon glaze over it.
12
Remove wax paper.
13
Cut into squares and serve.

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Yield:

10 servings

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Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 5:27pm

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