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Years ago, I found a Lemon Flavored Roll-Out Cookie Recipe in a family magazine. I love almost anything lemon flavored so I tore it out and copied it into my recipe book. Months later, I finally took time to give it a try and boy-oh-boy, it’s been a favorite of everyone ever since. I made a couple changes but each holiday, the kids and I dig out the appropriate cookie cutters and get busy creating these amazing cookies.
Lemon Sugar Cookies Recipe
Ingredients:
~3 1/4 cups flour
~1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
~1/2 teaspoon salt
~1 1/4 cup butter
~1 cup sugar
~1 egg
~1 tablespoon milk
~1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
~1 tablespoon lemon flavoring
Frosting:
~3 cups powdered sugar
~1 teaspoon vanilla extract
~1 tablespoon lemon flavoring
~food coloring, optional
~small amount of water
Instructions:
In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter on medium speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar. Beat until combined.
Add egg, milk, vanilla, and lemon and beat well.
Beat in as much of the flour mixture (from your medium bowl) as possible with the mixer. Stir in remaining flour.
Divide dough in half and form into balls.
Cover and chill for 1 hour so it’s easier to handle.
After 1 hour, preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface. Cut with desired shapes and place 1″ apart on an un-greased cookie sheet.
Bake for 8-10 minutes or until edges are firm and barely light brown.
Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Combine all frosting ingredients into one bowl and stir well. Frost cool cookies.
Enjoy!
These cookies never last long in our house! We also give them out at Christmas because everyone loves them so much. They are light and offer the perfect amounts of sweetness and lemon.
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Miranda
Hi Keara.
Yes. That would be the same. It just depends on the brand as what they call it. Enjoy!
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M.Clark
Yum! Chocolate is my favorite for all things dessert. I would definitely give this Lemon Sugar Cookies Recipe a try. Thank you for sharing this post.
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Deb E
Oh double lemon flavor–in the cookie dough AND the frosting. That must be the key. I just make regular sugar cookies with lots of vanilla, so I must try this one. For some reasons, I have a ton of Halloween cookie cutters, but for me, it really is the most fun holiday. I love those bats!
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Dandi D
My son and I would have so much fun making these together!
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Patricia Delgado
I love this simple and easy recipe! My children and I will enjoy making these.
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linnie
I love Lemon Sugar Cookies Recipes they are so cute and perfect for my Halloween party. Thanks for the recipe!
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Lisa W
How delicious i LOVE baking cookies❤ this is a recipe ill use for sure!
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monique
I am so jealous right now. I love your cookies. I try to bake and my items look like doggy poo. I am going to try this on Thursday. It is something I think I can do. Now that I have a visual to look at.
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Anne Taylor
I absolutely love to bake cookies with my grandkids! We’ve already baked up some for this year, but these look really good! I love that the cookies are lemon too!
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BILL HOFF
We are always looking for different treats to pepare the grand kids
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Melissa Cantu
These cookies look delicious and the recipe is smile. 🙂
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denise low
These look great. Thank you for sharing. Halloween is over but I still would like to make these.
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Miranda
Hi Denise!
This is the recipe we use all year round and just change out what cookie cutter shapes we use! Everyone always raves about how good they are. 🙂 They stay nice and soft for at least a week as well (they never last longer than that in our house.)
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These still look good even after Halloween. Thanks for sharing.
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Richard Hicks
Such cute cookies and not to hard to make either!
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Elizabeth H.
Sweet looking cookies and they are simple!!
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DJ
These look delicious! I love the decoration on these.
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Dagmar M
I am using this icing recipe!! Its hard for me to find an icing that looks like this! Almost a glazed look
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These are cute and super easy to make,ha I made mine this year and can’t say mine came out as nice as yours.Mine looked like a couple of blobs with icing,might be because my two year olds were making more messes than decorating.There always next year.lol
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Jeanine
Mmm, I love lemon as well. These look too good to eat!
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Amber Ludwig
Oooh these sound delicious!! I think I’ll use these for Christmas cookie fun this year!! PInned for later 🙂
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Kelly O
I am super excited about this recipe. I usually make a simple sugar cookies, but I love the addition of the lemon in this. I will be making this for sure 🙂
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Lynda Cook
I’m going to have to try these they sound great, I too love anything lemon!! you have some pretty talented cookie designers there too, they did an awesome job on the cookies!!
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Deborah D
These are so cute. They sound so good.
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gala
These cookies look delicious! I myself more of a cake person, but kids are asking to make cookies for Christmas and I’m using your recipe, thanks a lot
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Lauryn R
These cookies sound amazing, I love lemon!! And the Halloween theme is so cute! I’m sure you could make these with any them too, can’t wait to try them! 🙂
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Michelle S
I love good lemon cookie! I never thought of decorating them.
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Mary Beth Elderton
These are cute as Halloween cookies, but…Lemon Sugar Cookies!!! I don’t mind what shape they are–delicious!
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I think that these lemon sugar cookies would be great all year long. The look wonderful.
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Karen Propes
Oh, I’m so glad you posted this lemon cookie recipe. My DH loves lemon and I always want to make a decorated cookie and he says, didn’t make me any cookies did you? This will blow his mind when I make my Christmas cookies and make some of these. I pinned to my pinterest board.
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Mia
These look very cute! And I love that they have lemon flavoring.
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ellen beck
The lemon flavor would make them very differeent. I mean we are all having pumkin fever it seems, this lemon would be refreshing. I think in a sugar cookie lemon adds a nice flavor.
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Teresa Bean
This looks yummy for any season. I love the sweet & tart flavor of lemon in cookies and cakes.
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Sarah Hayes
how fun! we love making festive cookies and desserts. I think these would be delicious with the lemon in them. yum!
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Thank you for the recipe. We will get some cookie cutters for valentines day and make these.
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Katherine Riley
These look and sound so yummy. We love to make cookies in our house for the holidays.
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Sarah L
Very cute cookies. I like the lemon in the frosting to give it a kick.
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kathy downey
I’m going to have to try these cookies they sound great, i too love lemon!
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Rosiej
I’d like to try this, I love the idea of the lemon to use with my new springy cookie cutters – flowers, watering can, etc. I tried using real lemon juice and it doesn’t come out as good as using flavoring, like this recipe, uses quite a bit should be perfect!
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natalie nichols
This is a great recipe. I would love to make some sugar cookies for my daughter’s first birthday!
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Beth Rese
I love the idea of adding lemon in sugar cookies! These would be perfect for Easter! I might have to make some bunny ones up
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katie
I love everything lemon too, I always figure if it’s light that means I can have more dessert or cookies!
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Brenda Disimone
I have always made sugar cookies but never halloween shapes and never with lemon thanks for recipe my nephews and i will give it a try
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DENISE SMITH
these look so good and cute thanks for the recipe
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Brenda Haines
I love Halloween! It’s coming up soon, yay!!
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Lemon sugar cookies!?! That’s awesome! Never would have thought of them! Will be great to give out to the little ones I know for Halloween!
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Darlene Demell
These are really cute cookies. The kids will love them. Thanks for sharing.
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Lynne B
I’ve never made sugar cookies before. The addition of lemon flavoring makes these much more appealing to me. Thanks.
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Dotty J Boucher
I have made a couple of different sugar cookies but never this one or should I say lemon sugar cookie, I will have to keep it on my notes to try these out.
@tisonlyme143
These look delicious!! I love lemon cookies… can’t wait to try these. Is the lemon flavoring the same as lemon extract? I’ve never seen the flavoring in my grocery store (or maybe I just haven’t noticed it!). 🙂