Piped Lemon Butter Cookies - Trial attempt

Tested a batch of lemon butter cookies today by using the recipe here by Cook & Be Merry but I halfed the amount and omitted the lemon extract.

The dough was soft enough to be piped, perhaps too soft...?

The baked cookies ended up looking a little too flat and they sort of lost the rosette shape. They were also a wee bit too fragile/crumbly, but putting the cookies into the refrigerator seemed to rectify that.

XB said the cookies were good but the butter seemed to be overpowering the lemony flavor (they are butter cookies, d'oh!) He liked the melt-in-the-mouth goodness though. Haha..

I would need to tweak the recipe before making a second batch. Hopefully, the cookies will turn out better and I will be posting the updated recipe!