Lemon Cookies With Lemon Drizzle

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Let’s talk about these Lemon Cookies with Lemon Drizzle are one of my favorite cookies. I LOVE lemon. These are the perfect chewy, delicious cookie. It should certainly need to be added to your baking list!

A Note on Lemon Zest In Baked Goods

Here is a little note on lemon zest. The best way to incorporate it fully into a recipe is by mixing it with the granulated sugar FIRST. This ensures a more even distribution. If you haven’t tried this before, you need to!!

Here is my lemon zest and sugar mixed in and ready to go. The smell was heavenly!! If you are looking for a Microplane for zesting this is the one I love!!

Making The Lemon Cookie Dough

Now, let’s start the dough. Cream your butter, oil, and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add in vanilla then cream again. Normally you mix your dry ingredients in a separate bowl, but let me show you how to do it all in the same bowl. Add your flour on top of your butter mixture. Then on the very top of the flour, place your salt and baking powder. Carefully mix this in just in the top half of your flour. That will be enough, especially for simple recipes like this!! No need for a separate bowl at all.

Scooping Your Lemon Cookies

A portion scoop isn’t completely necessary, but I always use them. I use them for the one main reason that you want your cookies to bake all at the same time and rate. If your cookies aren’t the same size, they won’t bake at the same time or rate. It may seem anal, and maybe it really is, but I want them all cooking the same way. This is the scoop I use for mine. You can either use the small size, as I did here, or even the medium if you prefer a larger cookie.

I always love to bake on a baking sheet covered in parchment. This preference is for 2 reasons. The first is the ease of cleanup. It is so much simpler to clean up from baking with parchment. The second is I love the way cookies bake better on parchment on the metal baking sheet.

Baking the Cookies

A word on baking the Lemon Cookie with Lemon Drizzle. I realize everyone has different preferences when it comes to cookies. We like our’s chewy and soft. To achieve this texture, don’t over bake. I like to test them with color. You are looking for the edges to be very lightly browned. As each oven is different, especially if your oven hasn’t been calibrated. So, color is the best test. You can see if the photo below, you can see what the edges look like.

The Finished Lemon Cookie With Lemon Drizzle

Your cookies should finish out as shown below. They are a great bake.

Do you want to make it even better? How about a lemon drizzle? Yes, lemon on the lemon is even better. Then to add another layer of goodness, I also sprinkled on a touch of lemon zest after the drizzle too.

As another note, while I drizzled these perfect for the photos, we prefer a little more lemon drizzle.

Would you like some other cookie options? Check these one out:

• Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pretzels and Caramel are a great option.
• Pizzelles and pizzelle cups are so good too.
• Shortbread Cookies with Edible Flowers are beautiful and delicious.
• These Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies are a great gluten-free option.
• Carrot Cake Cookies are a big hit on the blog and Pinterest!

Looking for a great drink to go with the cookies? What about one of my favorites, a Pomegranate Vanilla Fizz?