Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies

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When you taste these super Soft Lemon and Blueberry Cookies, it’s like a lemon and blueberry explosion went off in your mouth! Between the juicy blueberries and the tangy lemon glaze in these so soft, thick bakery sugar cookies…OMG this recipe! 

Lemons and blueberries are totally a match made in foodie heaven. Like these Blueberry Lemon Bliss Cheesecake Bars, these Top 15 Luscious Lemon and Berry Desserts and these 25 Buzz-Worthy Blueberry Desserts to Bake!

Why I Love These Lemon Blueberry Cookies!

  • These Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies are actually THE bomb!
  • Easy recipe to whip up, no chilling the dough!
  • I made these Super Soft Lemon Glazed Sugar Cookies a few weeks ago and I fell in love with them, so why not try them with fresh blueberries for a twist?  Why not indeed!!  So I did!
  • Loaded with lemon and blueberry flavor! The balance of sweet and tart fruit flavors bursting…gahhhhhhh!
  • The lemon glaze takes these soft lemon cookies over the top!!!
  • Hard to resist! 

Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies

What Ingredients Are In Soft Lemon & Blueberry Cookies?

Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies Recipe

  • butter, softened
  • sugar
  • eggs
  • almond milk, you can use regular milk as well
  • vanilla extract
  • flour
  • baking powder
  • salt
  • lemon juice
  • Optional: 1 tablespoon lemon zest
  • blueberries, fresh

Lemon Icing Glaze

  • powdered sugar
  • lemon juice 
  • almond milk or milk of choice

Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies

How to Make Lemon Blueberry Cookies

 Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies

  1. In a bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt, set aside.
  2. In another bowl, using a mixer, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in lemon juice, milk, eggs, vanilla, almond milk and lemon zest optional and continue mixing until combined.
  3. Add ½ of the dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix. Add rest of the flour and mix together until combined.
  4. Fold in blueberries to distribute. 
  5. Using a medium size cookie scoop, drop scooped cookies out on parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake about 8-10 minutes @ 350 degrees, or until cookies do not sink or imprint when lightly touched on top. Do not over-bake. Cookies should not be brown.

Lemon Icing Glaze

  1. In a shallow bowl, mix powdered sugar and lemon juice in a bowl. Add in milk and continue stirring until mixed well and it’s a nice thick consistency, yet pourable.
  2. Dip cooled cookies in icing and allow to set on a cookie rack.
  3. After icing has set, seal cookies for keep soft.

More Blueberry?  You’ll love these Blueberry Cream Cheese Crumble Bars, this Buttermilk Blueberry Explosion Cake and these White Chocolate Blueberry Blondies!

Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies

How Important Is It to Chill Lemon Cookie Dough?

No worries! You don’t have to chill this dough at all!  Make ’em and bake ’em!

Can you Over Mix Cookie Dough?

If you over mix this cookie dough too much, you’ll add excess air to the dough, causing it to rise and then fall flat.  Just mix them until they are combined.  That’s it!

How to Store Soft Blueberry Lemon Cookies

  • Glazed cookies will stay fresh covered at room temperature for 2 days or in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

Easy Lemon Cookie Baking Tips

  • When baking, make sure to not overbake your cookies. It’s better to underbake just a tad, so they are fudgy and soft.  Overbaking will dry them out even by a few minutes.
  • Let cookies sit on baking sheet after taking them out of the oven for a few minutes, so they set up and don’t break or tear apart when you transfer them to a wire baking rack.
  • Once cookies are baked and cooled, you can glaze them and let them set up before storing them in an airtight container.  You want the glaze to set so the cookies don’t stick together.

 

Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies

These are the perfect summer cookies to serve for any occasion, holiday, BBQs, parties….the list goes on, ya know?  Lemon and blueberry lovers unite!  Enjoy!!

For more lemon recipe ideas, check out my Lemon Dreams Pinterest Board!  Want more Blueberries recipe ideas?  Go see my  Blueberry Dreams Pinterest Board!

More Lemon Yumminess!

Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies

Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies

Kim Lange
When you taste these, it's like a lemon and blueberry explosion bomb went off in your mouth!  Between the juicy blueberries and the tangy lemon glaze in these so soft, thick bakery sugar cookies...OMG!
4.25 from 91 votes
Course Dessert
Servings 18
Calories

Ingredients
  

Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies

  • ½ cup butter softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • cup almond milk you can use regular milk as well
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 ¼ cups flour
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • Juice of half a lemon
  • Optional: 1 Tbsp lemon zest
  • 1 ½ to 2 cups blueberries fresh

Lemon Icing Glaze

  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 3 Tbsp lemon juice 1 ½ lemons
  • 1 Tbsp almond milk or milk

Instructions
 

Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies

  • In a bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt, set aside.
  • In another bowl, using a mixer, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in lemon juice, milk, eggs, vanilla, almond milk and lemon zest optional and continue mixing until combined.
  • Add 1/2 of the dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix. Add rest of the flour and mix together until combined.
  • Fold in blueberries to distribute. 
  • Using a medium size cookie scoop, drop scooped cookies out on parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake about 8-10 minutes @ 350 degrees, or until cookies do not sink or imprint when lightly touched on top. Do not over-bake. Cookies should not be brown.

Lemon Icing Glaze:

  • In a shallow bowl, mix powdered sugar and lemon juice in a bowl. Add in milk and continue stirring until mixed well and it's a nice thick consistency, yet pourable.
  • Dip cooled cookies in icing and allow to set on a cookie rack.
  • After icing has set, seal cookies for keep soft.

Notes

  1. Glazed cookies will stay fresh covered at room temperature for 2 days or in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
Keyword blueberry, cookies, lemon, sugar cookies
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39 Comments

  1. Tonya, I haven’t tested it. Maybe decreasing the flour a little like 1/4 cup or so or try gluten-free flour 1 for 1. If you try it, let us know.

  2. I made these this afternoon for an anniversary party for my grandparents, I didn’t have a medium cookie scoop so I accidentally made them a little too big so they took longer to bake but they’re still delicious. They’re perfect with a cup of tea. I can’t wait for my family to try them!

  3. Yes, They freeze well and stay soft for a long time. Just open the container to air to defrost or the cookies will get gooey. Hope you enjoy Susan!! xo

  4. Yes it is correct Susan. What’s the expiration and it could be the type you are using? You could bump it down to 3 tsp for next time, but I have made these lots of times and not had that issue. 🙁

  5. Is 4 tsp of baking powder correct as stated? I can taste the baking powder after baked. Thanks

  6. Hello dear Kim; these include my favourite ingredients no. 2 ( first is always chocolate 🙂 ) so yes, I love it ! Thank you and enjoy the day !

  7. I’m all about lemon and blueberries together – I truly just can’t get enough! These are so enticing, I feel the need to whip them up right away! Thanks for the recipe!

  8. 100% agreed – lemon blueberrie is a combo made in foodie heaven. They even sound luscious and refreshing, and they must taste even better!

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