Lemon Glazed Soft-Baked Sugar Cookies
These soft-baked lemon sugar cookies are super soft and tender, and topped with a sweet homemade lemon glaze! If you love lemon recipes as much as I do, this lemon sugar cookie recipe is just for you!
Servings: 18 cookies
Ingredients
Recipe
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup almond milk, you can use regular milk as well
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 3 1/2 cups flour, divided
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 Tbsp lemon zest
- Juice of half a lemon
Icing
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1-2 Tbsp almond milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- By hand, using a standing mixer, or a hand mixer, cream together butter and sugar until fully combined. Add in lemon zest, lemon juice, milk, eggs, vanilla, and almond. Stir.
- In a separate bowl, sift together 2 cups of flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Mix dry ingredients into wet.
- Gradually, add more flour (about 1 to 1 1/2 cup) until it is stiff enough to roll out (I usually keep it fairly soft--just enough flour to make it manageable, which for me, is usually 1 cup of flour)
- On a floured or powdered sugared surface, roll out the dough to about a 1/4"; cut with your favorite cookie cutters.
- Bake about 8-10 minutes, or until cookies are done but not browned (cookies are done when puffy and do not sink when lightly touched on top.
- For the icing, mix powdered sugar and lemon juice in a bowl. Add in milk 1 Tbsp at a time, until desired consistency is reached.
- Dip cooled cookies in icing and allow to set on a cookie rack.
- Enjoy!