Easy Lemon Crinkle Cookies. Beat sugar and butter together in a large bowl using a handheld electric mixer or a stand mixer with the paddle attachment until creamy. Beat in egg, vanilla extract, lemon extract, lemon zest and juice, and yellow food coloring. Easy lemon crinkle cookies - perfectly tart and sweet, with just the right amount of lemon zest and lemon juice. Slightly crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, each crinkle cookie is packed with a delightful lemony flavor! Lemon crinkle cookies are very easy to make.
Once the cookie dough is all mixed up, let it chill in the refrigerator.
Add the egg, lemon juice, zest and both extracts.
These Easy Lemon Crinkle Cookies made with cake mix and Cool Whip are soft, chewy and perfect for a super quick and easy dessert or treat!
You can have Easy Lemon Crinkle Cookies using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Easy Lemon Crinkle Cookies
- It's 1 box of lemon flavored cake mix.
- You need 2 of large eggs, room temperature.
- Prepare 1/3 cup of vegetable oil.
- You need 1 tsp. of lemon extract.
- It's 1/4 cup of powdered sugar.
These easy cake mix cookies are perfect for lemon lovers! They're soft, chewy, lemony, sweet and very refreshing. Plus, you only need a few things to make them! In a medium bowl mix together the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
Easy Lemon Crinkle Cookies step by step
- Preheat oven to 375° F. Place parchment paper on baking trays and set aside..
- Mix together the cake mix, eggs, lemon extract & oil..
- Cover bowl with dough in it with plastic wrap or tinfoil and refrigerate for around 30 minutes..
- Once chilled, drop teaspoon sized balls of the dough into a bowl of the powdered sugar and roll until dough is covered..
- Arrange dough balls on prepared trays about an inch or so apart and bake for 7-9 minutes..
- Allow to cool on the tray for a few minutes, then move to a cooling rack. Store at room temperature..
In a separate bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, or use a hand mixer, beat together the sugar and butter until creamy. To make easy lemon crinkle cookies, you'll need lemon cake mix, vegetable oil and eggs. Lemon Crinkle Cookies are chewy, soft, and bursting with hints of lemon in every bite! I made these Lemon Crinkle Cookies for a recipe contest and won! Approved by all who taste them, these lemon cookies are soft, but still slightly crunchy, tart, but still really sweet.