Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • 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
  • 3 ¼ cups flour
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • Juice of half a lemon
  • Optional: 1 Tbsp lemon zest (*see notes)
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 3 Tbsp lemon juice ((1 ½ lemons))
  • 1 Tbsp almond milk or milk

Instruction

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Lemon Sugar Cookies:In a bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt, set aside.In another bowl, using a mixer, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in lemon juice, milk, eggs, vanilla, almond milk and lemon zest optional and continue mixing until combined.Add 1/2 of the dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix.  Add rest of the flour and mix together until combined.  Using a medium size cookie scoop, drop scooped cookies out on parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake about 8-10 minutes, or until cookies do not sink or imprint when lightly touched on top. Do not over-bake.  Cookies should not be brown.Lemon Icing Glaze: In a shallow bowl, mix powdered sugar and lemon juice in a bowl. Add in milk and continue stirring until mixed well and it's a nice thick consistency, yet pourable.Dip cooled cookies in icing and allow to set on a cookie rack.After icing has set, seal cookies for keep soft.