Lemon Cookies. This is a fantastic lemon cookie recipe from scratch, making a batch of delicious, soft cookies with just a few lemons. They are traditionally made with anise seeds, but I substituted lavender and lemon in this biscochitos recipe. The result is intriguing and delicious! These powdered sugar-coated lemon cookies taste similar to classic snowballs, except with a bright hint of citrus from grated lemon zest and fresh juice. Add walnuts for crunch or leave them out if you don't care for nuts.
My husband did a cookie exchange at his workplace (guess who made the cookies).
Cream sugar and butter in a bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
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.
You can have Lemon Cookies using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Lemon Cookies
- It's 1/4 cups of butter.
- You need 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
- It's 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 1 of small egg (or half of a big egg).
- You need 1 tsp of lemon zest.
- It's 1 tbsp of lemon juice (freshly squeezed).
- You need pinch of salt.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
- You need 3/4 cups of flour.
- You need 1/4 cups of powdered sugar.
How to Make Lemon Cookies Cream together the butter, sugars, egg, and lemon extract. Add in the lemon zest, honey, and optional food coloring, followed by the dry ingredients. Then, in a large bowl, cream the butter and sugars together until the mixture is light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, then the lemon zest and juice.
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..
In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt and cream of tartar. How To Make Lemon Cookies To make these lemon sugar cookies, you'll start out by whisking together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set the mixture aside and then mix up the wet ingredients. 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.