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Super Soft Lemon Glazed Sugar Cookies
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Lemon Glazed Soft-Baked Sugar Cookies

These delectable lemon glazed sugar cookies are super soft, thick and bursting with sweet and tangy lemon flavor.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time8 minutes
Course: Dessert
Keyword: cookies, lemon, summer
Servings: 18 Servings
Calories:
Author: Kim Lange

Ingredients

Lemon Sugar Cookies

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

Lemon Icing Glaze

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

Instructions

Lemon Sugar 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.
  • Using a medium size cookie scoop, drop scooped cookies out on parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake about 8-10 minutes, 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.