How To Make Bright Citrusy Lemon Cookies
Lemon cookies are the best especially since lemons add a bright citrusy flavor to any sweet cookies or pastry. Here is an easy recipe you can follow.
Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking: 9 minutes
Total: 19 minutes
Serves:
Ingredients
- 18.25ozlemon cake mix,(1 pkg)
- 2eggs
- ⅓cupvegetable oil
- 1tbsplemon juice
- 1tsplemon zest
- ⅓cuppowdered sugar for decor,optional
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
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Pour cake mix into a large bowl.
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Stir in eggs, oil, lemon juice and zest until well blended.
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Form dough into small balls about a tablespoon, and drop into a bowl of confectioners’ sugar.
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Roll them around until they’re lightly covered. Once sugared, place on a lightly-greased cookie sheet.
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Bake for 6 to 9 minutes in the preheated oven. The bottoms will be light brown, and the insides chewy.
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Let cool before serving.
Recipe Notes
- If you want to get a rounder, fluffier cookie, let the dough refrigerate at least 30 minutes.
- You can also prepare the sugared balls of dough on the cookie sheet, and just refrigerate the sheet for about ten minutes for a similar effect.
Nutrition
- Calories: 99.90kcal
- Fat: 4.21g
- Saturated Fat: 0.47g
- Trans Fat: 0.02g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.50g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.03g
- Carbohydrates: 15.12g
- Fiber: 0.01g
- Sugar: 1.33g
- Protein: 0.88g
- Cholesterol: 10.66mg
- Sodium: 48.95mg
- Calcium: 6.22mg
- Potassium: 30.31mg
- Iron: 0.40mg
- Vitamin A: 4.59µg
- Vitamin C: 0.28mg
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