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If you like lemon, you're going to love this collection of easy-to-make lemon sugar cookies. These treats are so soft and tender, they literally melt in your mouth. We've compiled our best lemon sugar cookie recipes including warm and cozy snickerdoodle-style ideas, lavender and citrus shortbread, and so much more. They're perfect for getting the kids involved in creating fun cut-out cookies, or decorating them with a zesty lemon frosting to make them impossible to resist.
Lemon Sugar Tea Cookies
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With a wonderful lemon flavor, crispy edges, and a chewy texture, these lemon sugar cookies are simply delightful.
Creamy Lemon Sugar Cookies
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Sugar cookie dough is flavored with lemon juice, and coated with a lemon sugar mixture before baking for extra zing. You could use lemon extract in the dough, if you prefer. “This recipe is perfection – I found this to be one of the best cookies I’ve ever had!” says home cook jenncooks4u. “This made 24 perfect lemony cookies for me.”
Citrus Cookies
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These easy sugar cookies are flavored with lemon juice and lemon zest but can easily be switched up to use any citrus. “The citrus I used was Meyer lemon,” says recipe reviewer pastorgerri. “So yummy! Light fruity taste and not too sweet.”
Princess Cookies
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These delicate lemon sugar cookies will not disappoint any little princesses or princes in your life. “They can either be drizzled with a lemon glaze made of confectioners sugar and fresh lemon juice, or rolled in sugar before baking for a more subtle lemon flavor,” suggests recipe contributor MRSPARKERII.
Lemon Cookies from Scratch
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Look no further for sweet, soft, zesty lemon sugar cookies. Home cook katy gave this recipe the full 5 stars: “These cookies are delicious! I used the zest from two lemons, but I could have gone with more – I can’t get enough zip! They were really easy to make and I’ll definitely be baking these again.”
Cinnamon Lemon Cookies
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This recipe makes 60 soft sugar cookies that taste like lemon-infused snickerdoodles. Don’t be put off by this flavor combination — this recipe has got rave reviews: “Love the twist of lemon in this cinnamon cookie. I made no changes and there is not a cookie left,” says home cook SLJ6. “Delicious!”
Lavender and Citrus Sugar Cookies
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These delicate cut-out sugar cookies are flavored with finely grated lemon zest and lavender for a deliciously fragrant lemony treat. You can brush the top of each cookie with egg whites and sprinkle with crushed dried lavender flowers and white sugar, or make a simple drizzle icing with lemon juice and powdered sugar for a gorgeous presentation.
Blue Ribbon Sugar Cookies
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These award-winning, light, tender sugar cookies are loaded with lemon flavor. Good thing this recipe makes 48 cookies, as they will disappear very quickly from holiday cookie platters.
Lemon Snowdrops
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Two soft and tender, lemon flavored sugar cookies are sandwiched together with a rich lemon filling and decorated with powdered sugar for a luscious lemon treat. “These are just delightful!” says recipe reviewer Darkgardyner. “A little on the labor intensive side BUT I made them as a birthday gift for a lemon lover who will really appreciate them.”
Lemon Sour Cream Cookies
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Bake up a batch of these delicious sugar-style cookies that are enriched with sour cream and loaded with freshly grated lemon for a zesty kick. Sprinkle sugar on top before baking if you like. “They are soft, moist, and lemony – a hit in this house!” says home cook lutzflcat.
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