How to Make Award-winning Lemon Sugar Cookies

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon sugar cookies. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lemon Sugar Cookies is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Lemon Sugar Cookies is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon sugar cookies using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Sugar Cookies:

1. Prepare 1 stick butter, softened
2. Make ready 1 1/4 cup flour
3. Make ready 1 cup white sugar, separated
4. Take 1 tbsp brown sugar
5. Make ready 2 tsp vanilla
6. Get 1 egg yolk
7. Get Zest of 2 small/medium lemons
8. Prepare 1/4 tsp baking soda
9. Make ready 1/2 tsp baking powder
10. Get 1/4 tsp salt

Steps to make Lemon Sugar Cookies:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Whisk together to combine.
3. In a medium bowl, using a hand or standing mixer, cream the butter, brown sugar and 3/4c sugar until light and fluffy. (about 3-4 minutes or so). Add egg, lemon zest and vanilla and beat until combined.
4. Slowly pour in the dry ingredients and beat just until combined–do not over mix. Roll cookie dough into about 1 1/2 inch balls and roll into the remaining 1/4 cup sugar (add sugar into a small bowl first.) and place about 2 inches apart on a parchment lined baking pan.
5. Bake 9-11 minutes. Allow to cool before eating.
6. Store in an air tight container or freeze. (They never last long in my glass cookie jar lol!)

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