Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Butter Frosting
Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Butter Frosting
These lemon sugar cookies are buttery soft and have a perfect lemon flavor. Lemon frosting makes them incredibly delicious. The perfect cookie recipe for lemon lovers!
We like sugar cookies, especially this lemon version. If you like sugar cookies as much as we do, you will also like our sugar biscuit sticks and sugar biscuit fruit pizza!
Soft Lemon Sugar Cookies
If you like lemon desserts, I have prepared the perfect cookies for you! I adapted my favorite sugar cookie recipe into today’s lemon sugar cookie recipe.
I am a big fan of any lemon and I am very excited about the results of these cookies. For those who like lemons, they are the perfect biscuits. With such soft cookies and delicious lemon frosting, it’s hard not to love them.
One thing I like about these cookies is that you don’t have to roll them out with a rolling pin. No, it’s not troublesome at all. Just roll them into a ball and place them on a cookie sheet lined with grease or silicone.
How to make lemon sugar cookies
Without scrolling, these cookies are simple! ! Here are the things you need to do:
Wet ingredients. Cream butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs, lemon juice and lemon zest, and mix well.
Dry. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt.
Did not launch. Roll the dough into a spoon-sized ball and place it on a lightly greased biscuit chip. Flatten with a glass dipped in sugar.
bake. Bake at 350° for 9-10 minutes, or until the bottom is almost light brown. Let sit on the pan for 3-4 minutes, then move to a cooling rack.
Cool the biscuits completely before frosting.
Recipe tips
Lemon flavor To adjust the taste of lemon, just reduce or increase the taste of lemon.
My cookies are too thin: If your cookies are thinner than you want, you can do the following:
- Add a little flour to the dough
- Cool the dough
Don’t overcook: Be sure to remove the biscuits before they start to brown. They may even look a little undercooked, but they will finish cooking when they cool on a hot pan.
Lemon butter frosting + more additions
After baking and cooling, you can put delicious lemon butter frosting on top.
I used a star tip to apply my frosting, and they turned out to be beautiful, don’t you think? But of course you can use a knife to spread the frosting on it, they still taste incredible!
To make it, simply stir the butter, powdered sugar, salt, lemon zest, and lemon juice until creamy, and add milk if needed. If you are piping the frosting, it needs to be very thick. If you just apply it, you can add more liquid.
Beautiful and delicious additives: These cookies are delicious, but if you want to change them, I have some ideas:
- Add poppy seeds to the dough
- Put fresh raspberries on the frosting
- Pour white chocolate on the biscuits, then sprinkle icing sugar on top
- Sprinkle chopped macadamia nuts or almonds on top
How to save + tips
Put your sugar cookies in an airtight container, then Shop They can be stored on the counter for up to 4 days. You can put them in the refrigerator to extend the storage time by one or two days.
If you plan to freezing Your cookies, try to freeze them before adding icing sugar. They will better maintain a frost-free state. Either way, stack them in a sealed container separated by wax paper. They should stay in good condition for up to 3 months.
Defrost before adding icing sugar and serving.
These sugar cookies are not only beautiful, but also delicious. I guarantee that all lemon lovers will be fascinated! ! ;D
We hope you agree! ! Let us know what you think of them.
For more lemon recipes, please check:
Course dessert
American cuisine
Preparation time 20 minutes
Cooking time 10 minutes
Total time 30 minutes
A serving of 30 biscuits
Calories 198 kcal
Author Little Luna
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Lemon frosting
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1-2 tablespoons milk, if needed
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Cream butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs, lemon juice and lemon zest, and mix well.
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Stir in flour, baking powder and salt.
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Roll the dough into a spoon-sized ball and place it on a lightly greased biscuit chip. Flatten with a glass dipped in sugar.
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Bake at 350° for 9-10 minutes, or until the bottom is almost light brown. Let sit on the pan for 3-4 minutes, then move to a cooling rack.
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Cool the biscuits completely and then frost them. I use a 1M star-shaped tip to apply icing sugar on it.
Lemon frosting
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Stir the butter, powdered sugar, salt, lemon zest and lemon juice until creamy, add milk if necessary. If you are piping the frosting, it needs to be very thick. If you just apply it, you can add more liquid.
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