Glazed Lemon Cookies – Barefeet in the Kitchen

These buttery, not-too-sweet cookies with a gentle lemon taste and a sweetly tart lemon glaze have been successful with everybody who tries one.

Glazed Lemon Cookies

In my household, we’re all large followers of lemon desserts. From the best lemon bars you’ll ever taste to the lemon angel pie we make yearly, lemon ice cream to lemon sorbet, lemon cheesecake to glazed lemon pound cake, there aren’t many lemon desserts that received’t make me smile.

Generally I like that pop of tangy citrus taste to just about hit me within the face. Different occasions the lemon taste sneaks in quietly and works its magic that means. These lemon cookies are a quiet sort of magical deal with.

It is a delicate lemon cookie, excellent for pairing with a cup of tea within the afternoon. If you wish to kick up that lemon taste, a bit extra lemon zest will do the trick and a little bit of lemon extract will enhance it much more. Be at liberty to regulate the quantity of lemon to ship the lemon cookie you’ll like greatest.

Lemon Cookie Recipe

You’ll want the next components to make these cookies:

• sugar
• lemon zest
• butter
• egg
• vanilla extract
• all-purpose flour
• baking powder
• salt

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and put aside. In a small bowl, mix granulated sugar and lemon zest. Rub the sugar and lemon zest collectively together with your fingers, till aromatic.

Add the butter to the bowl with the lemony sugar and beat with an electrical mixer till mild and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla extract. Beat once more till clean.

In a separate bowl, whisk collectively the flour, baking powder, and salt. Slowly add the flour combination to the moist components and beat once more to mix.

Drop the dough by tablespoons onto ready baking sheets, spacing the cookies roughly 2 inches aside. Roll them into balls after which gently flatten every one with the palm of your hand.

Bake for 11-12 minutes, till the cookies are simply barely set and flippantly golden brown across the edges. Enable the cookies to chill on the baking sheet for a minute after which switch them to cooking racks. Cool utterly.

Lemon Glaze for Cookies

You’ll want simply two components to make this glaze:

• powdered sugar
• lemon juice

To make the glaze mix the powdered sugar and lemon juice in a small bowl. Whisk or stir till clean, including extra lemon juice, a drizzle at a time, till you attain the specified consistency.

Drizzle the glaze over every cookie. Enable the cookies to set till the icing has firmly set. Retailer in an hermetic container.

Lemon Cookies

Lemon Crinkle Cookies with crisp edges and a chewy heart are considered one of my favourite lemon treats. Lemon desserts are at all times an amazing factor in my world, however these cookies are actually elegant. (I don’t use that phrase flippantly both!)

Chunk-size Lemon Drop Cookies are tender not-too-sweet cookies dipped right into a sweetly tart glaze. Conventional and gluten-free recipes are included.

Skinny, crisp, lemony cookies, barely tart from loads of lemon zest, sweetened with white chocolate chips, and loaded with macadamia nuts; these White Chocolate Macadamia Lemon Cookies had been the shock hit of our tenting journey final summer season. Conventional and gluten-free recipes are included.

{initially printed 5/26/11 – recipe notes and photographs up to date 4/8/24}

recipe due to Two Peas And Their Pod, technique flippantly tailored from identical