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This is a fantastic lemon cookie recipe from scratch, making a batch of delicious, soft cookies with just a few lemons. We have ideas for lemon crinkle cookies, healthy lemon cookies, Italian lemon cookies & more. My husband did a cookie exchange at his workplace (guess who made the cookies). You can cook Lemon Cookies using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lemon Cookies

It's 1/4 cups of butter.
Prepare 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
It's 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
You need 1 of small egg (or half of a big egg).
You need 1 tsp of lemon zest.
You need 1 tbsp of lemon juice (freshly squeezed).
Prepare pinch of salt.
Prepare 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
Prepare 3/4 cups of flour.
It's 1/4 cups of powdered sugar.

If you like lemon, you're going to love these cookies. They're soft, chewy, and packed with bold lemon flavor. Partially because most lemon cookie recipes look lackluster in the lemon flavoring department, look too cakey for my liking, or look too flat and wimpy. To make these lemon sugar cookies, you'll start out by whisking together the flour, baking soda, and salt.

Lemon Cookies instructions

Preheat oven to 350F/180C. Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside..
In a large bowl, cream butter (1/4 cup) and sugar (1/2 cup) together until light and fluffy. Whip in vanilla (1/2 tsp), 1 small egg (or whisk a big egg and add half), 1 tsp lemon zest and 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice. Scrape sides and mix again..
Stir in 3/4 cups flour, a pinch of salt, and 1/4 tsp baking powder slowly until just combined. Scrape sides of the bowl and mix again briefly..
Pour powdered sugar onto a large plate. Roll a teaspoon of dough into a ball and roll in powdered sugar. Place on the baking sheet and repeat with remaining dough..
Bake for 9-11 minutes or until bottoms begin to barely brown and cookies look matte (not melty or shiny). Remove from oven and cool cookies about 3 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack..

Set the mixture aside and then mix up the wet ingredients. 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. These delicious cookies have a kick of lemon flavor, and they're made from scratch rather than a box mix like the majority of recipes out there. This recipe was created because I absolutely love lemon-flavored desserts, but have an allergy to artificial colorants and dyes used in food.