Easy Lemon Sugar Cookies. The lemon sugar cookies taste best with fresh lemon because you need the lemon zest as well as the lemons but it can be made with lemon juice concentrate or lemon extract. You will skip adding lemon to the sugar mixture the cookies are rolled in because adding liquid with chance the consistency of the sugar and the cookies will not be able to. In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. A classic sugar cookie recipe taken up a notch with lemon, these EASY Lemon Sugar Cookies are great for summer! Full of fresh flavor and perfectly sweet!
Sugar cookies are probably the most iconic cookie only behind chocolate chip.
And just like chocolate chip, they have many different variations.
Add lemon sugar to a large bowl for rolling cookie dough in before baking.
You can have Easy Lemon Sugar Cookies using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Easy Lemon Sugar Cookies
- You need 120 grams of Cake flour.
- You need 40 grams of * Butter.
- Prepare 30 grams of * Sugar.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of * Lemon juice.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of * Milk.
- It's 1 of Powdered sugar (granulated sugar).
Place each ball of cookie dough into the bowl of lemon sugar and roll to coat well. This easy sugar cookie recipe is a lemon lover's dream. The cookies have so much lemon flavor (the recipe uses lemon extract AND fresh lemon zest). I especially love that you can see the little flecks of lemon zest in the cookies.
Easy Lemon Sugar Cookies instructions
- Mix all the * ingredients in the order listed. Add the cake flour and fold in with a spatula using a cutting motion..
- Shape the dough into a stick and wrap in plastic. Let sit in the freezer for 30 minutes..
- Cut the cookie dough into 5 mm thick pieces. Align on a baking tray and sprinkle some powdered sugar. Bake for 14-16 minutes at 180℃..
- Let the cookies cool and enjoy (please adjust baking temperature and time to your oven)..
The edge of the cookies is a bit crispy but the inside is perfectly soft and chewy. These Easy Lemon Drop Cookies are made in one bowl, a simple buttery lemony cookie that will satisfy every lemon lover. As you can see I am on a Cookie recipe craze these days and this time. 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.