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. In a large bowl, beat butter, sugars and oil until blended. Combine flour, baking soda and cream of tartar; stir into butter mixture (dough will be stiff).
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.
You can have Easy Lemon Sugar Cookies using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Easy Lemon Sugar Cookies
- It's 120 grams of Cake flour.
- It's 40 grams of ＊ Butter.
- You need 30 grams of ＊ Sugar.
- It's 1 tbsp of ＊ Lemon juice.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of ＊ Milk.
- Prepare 1 of Powdered sugar (granulated sugar).
And just like chocolate chip, they have many different variations. In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in lemon juice, cream and lemon zest.
Easy Lemon Sugar Cookies step by step
- 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)..
Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture. 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. The edge of the cookies is a bit crispy but the inside is perfectly soft and chewy.