Simply Bakings

Delightful Dishes from the Island

  • Home
  • Recipes
  • Filipino Recipes
  • About Me
  • Let’s Work Together
  • Contact Us
Home » Cookies » Lemon Cookies

Lemon Cookies

Pin86
Share
Tweet
Share
86 Shares
Jump to Recipe

Lemon cookies are always a fresh addition to your cookie recipes! Enjoy the fresh burst of lemon flavor from these soft and delicious Lemon cookies which contains fresh lemon juice and lemon zest!

Lemon Cookies on a pan

I want to show you, Simply Bakers where I got my fresh lemons! We have a lot of them in our backyard and this always pushes me to make delicious lemon desserts.

beautiful lemon trees

Tips on How to Make Lemon Cookies:

  • Make sure to sift the powdered sugar because if you don’t, you are going to have lumpy cookie dough.
  • Use a stand mixer when kneading a larger batch of Lemon Cookies dough.
  • Melt the butter completely so that it will incorporate well on the cookie dough.
  • To save time, zest the lemon in advance and also, take the juice out a night before baking the Lemon cookies.

How to Make Lemon Cookies:

These are the ingredients that you will need:

  • all-purpose flour
  • white sugar
  • butter
  • lemon zest
  •  lemon juice
  • egg
  • baking soda
  • baking powder
  • corn syrup

ingredients for lemon cookies

Preheat oven 325 degrees F, then start mixing butter and sugar until fluffy:

mixing the butter and sugar together in a bowl

Then add egg and corn syrup and mix. Next, add the lemon zest and lemon juice:

adding eggs to the sugar and butter mixture

In a separate bowl mix, all-purpose flour and baking soda then add it to the wet ingredients:

adding the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients

Refrigerate for at least one hour:

covering the cookie dough with saran wrap

After chilling the dough,  form  cookie  dough  balls,  like  so:ready to bake lemon cookie dough on a cookie sheet

Bake for 12-15 minutes for large cookies:

freshly baked lemon cookies on a cookie sheet

Frequently Asked Questions for the Lemon Cookies Recipe:

Q: How do you store Lemon Cookies Cookies?

A: After cooling them completely, keep them in an airtight container to keep them fresh longer.

Q: How can I keep my cookies from spreading too much?

A: You can leave them as cookie balls before you bake them. In that way, the spread of the cookie will not be as much compared to when you flatten the dough.

Q: Can I double the recipe?

A: Yes for sure! You might want to use a stand mixer when you are doing a larger batch of cookies.


More delicious Lemon dessert recipes:

  • Snowball Lemon Drop Cookies
  • Funfetti Lemon Cake Mix Cookies
  • Lemon Brownies – Quick & Delicious
  • Simple Lemon Cake
Print

Lemon Cookies

★★★★★

5 from 1 reviews

Lemon cookies are a great alternative to chocolate chip cookies.

  • Author: Lainey
  • Category: Dessert
Scale

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 tablespoon corn syrup

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven 325 degrees F
  2. Mix butter and sugar until fluffy then add egg and corn syrup and mix. Next add the lemon zest and lemon juice.
  3. In a separate bowl mix all purpose flour and baking soda then add it to the wet ingredients.
  4. Refrigerate for at least one hour.
  5. Bake for 12-15 minutes for large cookies

Did you make this recipe?

Tag @simplybakings on Instagram and hashtag it #simplybakings

NEVER MISS A RECIPE!

PINTEREST / FACEBOOK / INSTAGRAM / TWITTER

If you’ve tried this or any other of my recipes, don’t forget to rate the recipe and to leave me a comment. I love hearing from you!

Related

Pin86
Share
Tweet
Share
86 Shares

Category: Cookies

Comments

  1. Tay says

    December 12, 2014 at 2:45 am

    These look amazing! If i made each cookie about 1 tablespoon of dough each, does that count as “mini cookies”? Because in the video you baked the large ones for 15 min and said mini ones bake for 12. Please reply, thank you! (btw I loveee your videos! I’m a subscriber c:)

    Reply
    • Lainey says

      December 12, 2014 at 11:48 pm

      Thank you!! Yes, that would count as mini cookies, bake them between 10-12 minutes. xx 🙂

      Reply
  2. Sorra says

    June 21, 2015 at 5:37 pm

    Should I really use the corn syrup or I can have something as a subtitute?

    Reply
    • Lainey says

      October 5, 2020 at 5:37 am

      Hi Sorra, I know it’s so unhealthy to use corn syrup, so feel free to omit it. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Teresa says

    August 15, 2018 at 9:09 am

    Thanks for sharing such a good opinion, paragraph is good, thats why i have read
    it completely

    Reply
    • Lainey says

      September 4, 2020 at 2:25 am

      Hi Teresa! Thanks for swinging by. 🙂

      Reply
  4. Glendale says

    November 28, 2018 at 10:27 am

    Amazing! This is so yum!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Lainey says

      January 30, 2019 at 6:14 am

      Thank you so much Glendale!

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.

Lainey created Simply Bakings to share fun, creative, and simple recipes for all ages.

read more…

Subscribe to My Channel

Popular Posts

  • Buko Pandan in a small cup with a spoon Buko Pandan
  • no bake cookie dough in a yellow bowl Cookie Dough Bites
  • 5 ingredient oreo cheesecake cookies Oreo Cheesecake Cookies
  • donuts a filipino twisted fried donut How To Make Shakoy
  • 3 ingredient no bake oreo cheesecake in a mason jar 3 Ingredient No Bake Oreo Cheesecake

Categories

Archives

Blogs I Enjoy Reading

  • Haniela’s
  • Montreal Confections
  • Veggietorials
  • The Divine Hostess
  • Pretty Polymath
  • Frugal Beautiful
  • Saving the Crumbs

Menu

  • Lifestyle
  • Travel and Leisure
  • Links I Love
  • Round Ups
  • Baking Tip of the Week
  • Privacy Policy

Popular Posts

  • Buko Pandan
  • Ginataang Kalabasa – Vegetarian Friendly
  • 3 Ingredient No Bake Cheesecake
  • Cookie Dough Bites
  • Oreo Cheesecake Cookies

Subscribe Via Email

Copyright © 2021 Simply Bakings · Designed + Developed by Jelly Design Studio

Copyright © 2021 · JDS Responsive Child Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in