These Lemon Crinkle Cookies are an amazing lemon cookie, crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. Even on day 2 the cookies are still crispy – yummy! They are full of lemon flavour – there is lemon zest and lemon juice in the ingredients. The recipe takes no time at all to mix together and only 11 minutes of baking time- you can’t make a batch of cookies much quicker than that.
The little balls of lemon cookie dough are rolled in icing sugar before being baked. It is this outer shell of sugar that gives the cookies their crispy exterior. Once you have rolled the balls in the icing sugar, flatten them slightly so that they will spread some during baking. I used a smaller scoop for these cookies- probably about a 1 tbsp and it made 36 cookies. So that means there is enough for sharing!
I bought a whole bag of lemons from Costco so there will be no shortage of lemon recipes in the near future. In the middle of winter the bright yellow of lemons reminds me of summer sun and lemonade. So seeing as though the warm summer sun is but a distant memory right now- we will have to make do with yummy baked lemon goods instead. Come to think of it, that really isn’t such a bad thing after all. Full of Vitamin C -how can lemon baked goods be bad for you?
- ½ cup salted butter, room temp
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 large egg, room temp
- zest of 1 large lemon
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ⅛ tsp baking soda
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup icing sugar
- Preheat oven to 350℉. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, mix together the granulated sugar and lemon zest until aromatic. Add butter and beat until light and fluffy. Add in vanilla, egg, and juice. Scrape sides and mix again.
- Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add to butter mixture all at once. Mix on low speed until combined. Scrape sides of bowl and mix again briefly. Pour powdered sugar onto a small bowl. Roll a heaping teaspoon of dough into a ball and roll in powdered sugar. Place on baking sheet and repeat with remaining dough.
- Flatten cookies slightly with the palm of your hand
- Bake for 11 minutes or until cookies look matte {not melty or shiny}. Remove from oven and cool cookies on baking sheet about 3 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.
Only one word applies: YUM. Well, more words apply too, like “PLEASE”, “NOW”, and “YES”. But I digress. Love these cookies!
Thanks…me too!