Super Soft Lemon Cookies
These delectable lemon glazed sugar cookies are super soft, thick and bursting with sweet and tangy lemon flavor.
Servings: 18 Servings
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Ingredients
Lemon Sugar Cookies
- ½ cup unsalted 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
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 1/2 lemon
- Optional: 1 Tbsp lemon zest
Lemon Icing Glaze
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1 & 1/2 lemons
- 1 tablespoon almond milk or milk
Instructions
Lemon Sugar Cookies:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- 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.
- Let cookies set for a couple of minutes on the baking sheets before transferring to a wire rack and then frost with the lemon icing!
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.