As I blogged about earlier on the site, I recently checked out Giada De Lauretiis' "Giada's Kitchen" from the local public library. The second recipe I decided to take up in the book was the Lemon Ricotta Cookies with Lemon Glaze, which is also available on the Food Network website at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/lemon-ricotta-cookies-with-lemon-glaze-recipe/index.html.
I decided to make them for a co-worker whose birthday was coming and has been trying a new low-fat, healthier lifestyle. To make the cookies you see above, I omitted the lemon glaze both for health and taste reasons (I don't like overly-lemony sweets, which also led me to reduce the amount of fresh lemon juice used by 1 tablespoon), and I substituted low-fat ricotta. I also reduced the baking time by about 3 – 5 minutes to make sure the bottoms didn't get too brown.
The cookies were definitely a hit in the office — I ended up emailing the Food Network link to no less than 5 co-workers (one of whom remarked to me last week that she was hoping to make them this weekend). No one could tell that I had used low-fat ricotta, and some were surprised that the original recipe called for a sweet topping as well. I think that these cookies are going to get added into the baked goods rotation at work given the overwhelmingly positive reaction!
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