Lemon Cookies. This is a fantastic lemon cookie recipe from scratch, making a batch of delicious, soft cookies with just a few lemons. These delicious cookies have a kick of lemon flavor, and they're made from scratch rather than a box mix like the majority of recipes out there. This recipe was created because I absolutely love lemon-flavored desserts, but have an allergy to artificial colorants and dyes used in food.

Lemon cookies work great for bake sales, baby or wedding showers, or an elegant tea that calls for a pretty cookie plate. Try several of these delightfully tart treats, whatever the occasion. My husband did a cookie exchange at his workplace (guess who made the cookies). You can have Lemon Cookies using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Lemon Cookies

You need of flour.
You need of eggs.
You need of baking soda.
Prepare of salt.
You need of sugar.
Prepare of cream cheese.
You need of unsalted butter at room temp.
It's of lemon pudding powder.
You need of lemon extract.

These delicious cookies have a kick of lemon flavor, and they're made from scratch rather than a box mix like the majority of recipes out there. This recipe was created because I absolutely love lemon-flavored desserts, but have an allergy to artificial colorants and dyes used in food. If you like lemon, you're going to love these cookies. They're soft, chewy, and packed with bold lemon flavor.

Lemon Cookies instructions

Whisk together baking soda, flour, and salt..
Beat cream cheese and sugar together until light and fluffy with an electric mixer..
Add pudding. Mix together..
Add eggs. Mix together..
Add lemon extract. Mix together..
Use a rubber spatula to fold dry ingredients into wet ingredients to form a dough..
Refridgerate dough for 15 minutes..
Make 1 inch cookies and bake at 350° for approximately 8-10 minutes or when bottoms of cookies begin to brown..
Variations; Lemon zest, white chocolate chips, banana extract, raspberry drizzle, powdered sugar and milk glaze, sweetened-condensed milk, powdered sugar, blackberry jam,.

Partially because most lemon cookie recipes look lackluster in the lemon flavoring department, look too cakey for my liking, or look too flat and wimpy. To make these lemon sugar cookies, you'll start out by whisking together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set the mixture aside and then mix up the wet ingredients. Beat sugar and butter together in a large bowl using a handheld electric mixer or a stand mixer with the paddle attachment until creamy. Beat in egg, vanilla extract, lemon extract, lemon zest and juice, and yellow food coloring.