Glazed Lemon Cookies
If you like lemon, you will LOVE these glazed lemon cookies! A soft lemon sugar cookie brushed with a delicious lemon glaze and topped with a lemon slice.
Servings: 30 cookies
Calories: 224kcal
Ingredients
LEMON COOKIES
- ½ cup butter room temperature
- ½ cup shortening*
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp. lemon zest
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
LEMON GLAZE
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2-3 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 2 Tbsp. lemon zest
GARNISH
- lemon slices
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, cream butter, shortening, and sugar with an electric hand mixer or stand mixer. Beat in eggs. Add lemon juice and lemon zest.
- In a separate bowl whisk flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt together.
- Combine flour mixture with wet ingredients.
- Scoop cookies, using a medium cookie scoop, and place them on baking sheets lined with parchment paper (I usually bake 6 cookies per sheet).
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
- While cookies bake, let's make the glaze! Add all lemon glaze ingredients to a small saucepan. Heat and stir until the butter melts, the sugar dissolves and the glaze is smooth and creamy.
- Allow cookies to cool for 3 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack.
- Brush cookies with lemon glaze and add a slice of lemon as a garnish.
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Notes
- I like using a 50/50 combination of butter and shortening in my sugar cookie recipes because I think it gives them the best texture, but you can use all butter if you’d like.
- These cookies are delicious served at room temperature or chilled. Make sure to squeeze the lemon slice over the cookie before eating it!
- Store cookies in an airtight container or cover them in plastic. This recipe makes 30 cookies.
Nutrition
Calories: 224kcal
