Soft Lemon Cookies. Add lemon juice, lemon zest, egg, and vanilla extract; mix on low speed to combine, scraping down the sides of the bowl to incorporate everything evenly. If you like lemon, you're going to love these cookies. They're soft, chewy, and packed with bold lemon flavor. Quick and easy lemon cookies from scratch recipe, made with simple ingredients. These soft and chewy cookies are packed with lemon flavor, coming from lemon zest, lemon juice and lemon extract.

If you are fond of my key lime cookies, you are going to LOVE these lemon cookies. They are SOFT and CHEWY with a CRISPY, SUGARY top that's to die for. Serve these cookies at weddings, Easter, Passover. You can cook Soft Lemon Cookies using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Soft Lemon Cookies

Prepare 100 g of Butter *softened.
Prepare 1/2 cup of Caster Sugar.
You need 1 of Egg Yolk.
It's of *Note: You can use whole Egg. In that case, you need to add extra Flour.
It's of Zest and Juice of 1 Lemon.
Prepare 1 cup of (*250ml) Self-Raising Flour *and extra 3-4 tablespoons if you use whole Egg.
You need 3-4 tablespoons of Icing Sugar for coating.

Editor's Tip: Instead of greasing your baking sheets, try lining 'em with parchment paper for perfect cookies every time. Let them rest for a few minutes before moving them to wire racks to cool completely. Beat briefly until soft cookie dough forms. Carefully transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.

Soft Lemon Cookies instructions

Mix softened Butter and Sugar until smooth. Add Egg Yolk (OR Whole Egg) and mix until creamy. Add Lemon Zest and Juice, and mix well. It may look curdled..
Add Self-Raising Flour, mix to combine. At this stage, the dough is too soft to roll. Place in the fridge for a while to firm up..
Preheat oven to 170 to 180C. Line a large baking tray (OR 2 trays) with baking paper..
Roll the dough into 20 balls, about 3cm size. Then roll the balls in Icing Sugar to coat well, and place on the prepared tray(s). Cookies need plenty space around each..
Bake for about 15 minutes or until lightly golden. Cool on wire racks..

To make the lemon glaze, sift the icing sugar into a mixing bowl. Soft and Simple Lemon Cookies are a favorite with everyone. The butter, cream cheese and powdered sugar in this Lemon Cake Mix Cookie make them totally melt in your mouth! Of all the lemon cookie recipes on the site, this one is definitely the most simple! We also like the cake mix version with frosting, and the lemon sugar cookie recipe.