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 mins
Cook Time8 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Keyword: cookies, lemon, summer
Servings: 18 Servings
Calories:
Author: Kim Lange
Lemon Sugar Cookies
- ½ cup butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- ⅓ 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
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.