Lisa's Southern Kitchen

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Ingredients:

Cookies:

• 4 cups Self Rising Flour

• 1 cup Granulated Sugar

• 1 tsp. Fresh Lemon Zest from Lemon

• 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract

• 1/4 cup Milk

• 1/2 cup Butter, melted

• 4 Eggs

Filling:

• 1 container Ricotta Cheese

• 1/4 cup Peach Jam

• 1 tsp. Vanilla Bean Paste

• 1 tbsp. Fresh Orange Zest from Orange

Decoration:

• 1/4 cup Peach Juice

• 1 tbsp. Red Food Coloring

• 1 tbsp. Yellow Food Coloring

• 1/4 cup Granulated Sugar

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Make the cookie, in a bowl of stand up mixer add in eggs, sugar and beat well until slightly frothy.
3. Add in flour, sugar and vanilla extract, butter, milk, eggs, beat well until combined.
4. Roll the cookie dough into balls and place on parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake for 12 minutes and let cool for 5 minutes.
5. Scoop the center inside out and place in a bowl. Set aside.
6. Make the filling, in a bowl add ingredients and mix well until smooth.
7. Spoon the filling in the center of each cookie.
8. Make decoration, divide the peach juice into two bowls and in one bowl drop few drops of red food coloring and second bowl drop few drops yellow food coloring. Place sugar on shallow plate.
9. Dip each cookie into red food coloring and then in yellow food coloring and now roll each cookie into sugar.
10. Place the cookies on parchment paper lined baking sheet and place in fridge for 2 hours before serving.