Easy Soft Lemon Cookies With Glaze Food

SOFT GLAZED LEMON COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350F/180C and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
• In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar until smooth.
• Add the egg, vanilla, lemon juice and zest and beat to combine.
• Sift in the flour and add the baking soda, then fold everything together.
• Add a few drops of yellow food coloring and fold again (optional).
• Chill the cookie dough in the fridge for 1 hour.
• Take handfuls of the mixture and roll into balls (each should weigh approx. 50g/1.8oz). Place these on the baking sheets, leaving enough space between them for spreading as they bake.
• Bake for 11-13 minutes.
• Leave the cookies on the baking sheets for about 10 minutes before using a spatula to transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Make the lemon glaze by mixing together the powdered sugar and lemon juice.
• Drizzle the glaze over the top of the cooled cookies.
• Lemon cookies will keep well in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days.

EASY & SOFT LEMON COOKIES WITH GLAZE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream the sugar, butter and cream cheese on medium high for two minutes.
• Add the egg, lemon extract, milk, vanilla extract and optional yellow food coloring and mix until well combined. If dough clumps up, it's okay.
• Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and mix until well combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and then mix again, until well combined. Dough will be thick.
• Cover the cookie dough and chill it in the refrigerator for about an hour.
• After dough has chilled, preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking pan with parchement paper.
• Use a cookie scoop or spoon to measure out the cookie dough and add to the cookie sheet. Cookies should be about the size of ping pong balls. No need to flatten out cookies.
• Bake in a pre-heated oven for 12 minutes. Place cookie sheet on a wire rack to cool for about 5 minutes, then take the cookies off the baking sheet and let them cool completely on a rack before adding the glaze.
• Add all of the glaze ingredients and mix well. It will be thick at first, but keep mixing until well combined before adding any additional milk as that could make it too thin. If once mixed, it's still very thick, add in another teaspoon to tablespoon of milk. You want the glaze a thicker consistency though, so that it doesn't run off of the cookies.
• Add glaze to the cookies, once they're completely cooled. The glaze can be added using a spoon or just dip the top of the cookie into the glaze.

SOFT LEMON COOKIES WITH GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Mix flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt together in a medium bowl. Use a spoon to make a well in the center of the mixture. Pour oil, lemon juice, and vanilla extract in the well. Mix and knead until a dough forms.
• Roll into balls and flatten with the heel of your hand or anything with a flat surface. Place about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden, about 8 minutes for a softer cookie, 10 to 12 minutes for a crispier cookie. Cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool, 8 to 10 minutes more.
• While cookies cool, whisk together the powdered sugar and lemon juice and glaze cookies however you like.

LEMON COOKIES WITH GLAZE

Steps:

• Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl.
• Cream sugar and butter together with an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing until incorporated. Reduce speed to low and beat in sour cream and lemon zest. Add flour mixture and mix until combined.
• Refrigerate dough until slightly firm, about 1 hour.
• Adjust oven racks to upper-middle and lower-middle positions and preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Drop rounded tablespoons of dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing cookies 2 inches apart.
• Bake until just golden around the edges, about 15 minutes, switching and rotating sheets halfway through baking time (one sheet of cookies took about 12 minutes, the other sheet ended up taking 16 minutes). Cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool, 8 to 10 minutes more.
• While cookies cool, mix powdered sugar, lemon juice, milk, and lemon zest for glaze together and lightly drizzle cookies when they are almost completely cooled.

EASY LEMON DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat eggs until frothy. Beat in the sugar, lemon zest and extract. Combine flour and baking powder; gradually add to sugar mixture and mix well. , Drop by teaspoonfuls 2 in. apart onto baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Bake at 325° for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely on baking sheets before removing to wire racks. , For glaze, in a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar and enough lemon juice to achieve desired consistency; drizzle over cookies.