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Easy Homemade Lemon Sugar Cookies

Are you looking for a fun twist on a traditional sugar cookie? Well, look no further! Here I will teach you how to make delicious and easy homemade lemon sugar cookies from scratch. These cookies are light in taste and chewy in texture making them the perfect spring or summer treat!
Prep Time15 minutes
Active Time10 minutes
Total Time25 minutes
Course: Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: lemon, lemon sugar cookies, lemon cookies, baking, cooking, easy cookies recipes, cookie recipes, summer cookie recipes, lemon recipes
Yield: 30 cookies

Equipment

  • 1 Stand Mixer
  • 1 Cookie Sheet
  • 1 wire cooling rack
  • 1 cookie scoop optional

Materials

  • 2¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 2 large lemons (if you want to add some zest to the cookies in the sugar coating)
  • 1½ cups granulated sugar
  • 1 cup salted butter
  • 1 large Egg
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 TBSP lemon juice (feel free to add up to a TBSP more if you want more lemon taste)
  • ½ cup sugar for rolling in

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350℉ and line the cookie sheets with parchment paper. In a small bowl add 1/2 cup of sugar and optional lemon zest and mix well. Set aside.
    parchment paper on a cookie sheet
  • In a stand mixer or bowl add the wet ingredients all together (butter, egg, sugar, vanilla, lemon juice) and mix well.
  • Next, add the dry ingredients into the same bowl (flour, baking powder, baking soda) and mix everything until it forms a dough.
    stand mixer with cookie dough in it
  • Take your 2 TBSP cookie scoop and make 30 dough balls.
  • Roll each dough ball into the extra sugar and optional lemon zest so they are well coated and then place them onto the cookie sheet.
  • Once all the coated dough balls are on the cookie sheet, you can flatten then with a fork.
    flattening a dough ball with a fork
  • Place the cookie sheets into oven and bake at 350 ℉ for 8-10 minutes.
  • Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for 2-5 minutes and then move them to cooling racks until they have cooled completely.
    lemon sugar cookies on a cooling rack
  • You can freeze these cookies once they are cooled if you want to keep them for future use. You can also freeze the dough by creating dough balls and freezing them. Then you can just pull out the dough when you want to bake them.
    dough balls in an airtight bag ready to freeze

Notes

These cookies will last in an airtight container for 7 days or you can freeze them for up to 6 months.