How to Make Tasty Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Glaze

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Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Glaze. These LEMON SUGAR COOKIES are my signature RECIPE! They are made with REAL LEMON JUICE, LEMON ZEST and some LEMON EXTRACT for that extra kick! Then to top it off, I show you HOW TO MAKE an EASY SIMPLE LEMON GLAZE, to drizzle on top of the cookies. These soft-baked lemon sugar cookies are super soft and tender, and topped with a sweet homemade lemon glaze! If you love lemon recipes as much as I do, this lemon sugar cookie recipe is just for you!

Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Glaze You know those ridiculously addictive, frosted sugar cookies from the grocery store? Glazed lemon cookies - soft baked sugar cookies topped with a fresh lemon glaze. The perfect light and sweet dessert for Spring & Summer. You can cook Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Glaze using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Glaze

  1. It's of Cookies.
  2. Prepare 1 cup of Butter.
  3. You need 1 cup of Sugar.
  4. It's 1 of Egg.
  5. You need 1 tsp of Vanilla.
  6. You need 3 tbsp of Milk.
  7. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of Baking Powder.
  8. You need 3 cup of Flour.
  9. You need 1/2 tsp of Salt.
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp of Fresh Lemon Juice.
  11. Prepare 2 tsp of Grated Lemon Peel.
  12. Prepare of Lemon Glaze.
  13. You need 2 cup of Confectioners Sugar.
  14. You need 2 tbsp of Finely grated Lemon Peel.
  15. It's 1/3 cup of Fresh Lemon Juice.
  16. It's 2 oz of Cream Cheese, softened.

For the glaze: whisk together powdered sugar, lemon juice and zest in a medium size bowl. Add a teaspoon of water at a time, until you reach a nice and smooth. If you enjoy these Glazed Lemon Sugar Cookies, I made Lemon Cream Cheese Cookies and they are so soft and chewy. Think bakery style cookies and they pack a lot of flavors too!

Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Glaze instructions

  1. Preheat Oven to 325.
  2. Cream Butter and Sugar in mixer.
  3. Add Egg, Vanilla, & Milk.
  4. Add Baking Powder, Flour and Salt.
  5. Mix all well.
  6. Drop teaspoons sized or slightly larger onto very lightly greased cookie sheets..
  7. Press down the cookies into flat round cookie shapes with spoon or bottom of a glass.
  8. Bake at 325 for 10 minutes.
  9. Lemon Glaze:.
  10. in mixing Bowl, cream together all ingredients for glaze..
  11. **I let my glaze sit in the refrigerator while cookies are cooling to help it firm up a bit..
  12. Let the cookies cool down completely then spread glaze onto each one with spoon..
  13. **Glaze will be slighly runny but it will firm up once they sit. so glaze them on Wax paper or a protected counter top..

Summer is a great time to make lemon cookies and I cannot seem to get enough of them. These lemon ricotta sugar cookies are sweet, soft, and chewy around the edges and have a light refreshing lemon taste. That tartness of the glaze really balances out the sweetness of the cookie and I just love seeing those bits of lemon zest in the glaze. Perfectly zingy and sweet these Lemon Sugar Cookies are to die for! Topped with a lemony icing, you won't be able to hold yourself back.