Lemon Lovers Unite!!! You need to make these cookies! TODAY! They are that gooooood!!! Lemony, so light, and melt in your mouth!
I’m back! I’ve been in such a rut, I’ve been sick and it’s just so hard to get back the energy I usually have but with Mother’s Day this weekend, I wanted to do some baking and I hope you LOVE these cookie as much as I do! Lemony, so light, and they just melt in your mouth!
I have a “Sandies” recipe that I make every Christmas and they are my absolute favorite cookie. I saw a recipe for “Lemon Meltaways” but it had way to many ingredients so I just made a couple of adjustments to my “Sandies” recipe and the result was amazing!!!! Lemony, literally melt in your mouth deliciousness!!! These cookies would be a great addition to your brunch, special tea party or dessert.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mother’s out there, especially my mom and my mom-in-law. I am so happy to have these strong, intelligent, beautiful ladies in my life and am so thankful for everything they do! I love you! Enjoy your weekend with your families, put your feet up, relax and let people wait on you! You deserve every second being pampered! xoxoxo
Lemon Meltaways Cookies (makes 24 cookies)
- 1 cup butter, salted room temperature (not margarine)
- 1/3 cup sugar, plus 2 TBSP
- 1 TBSP lemon zest (approx. 1 – 2 lemons)
- 2 TBSP lemon juice, fresh
- 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
- Icing sugar, for dusting cookies
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a mixing bowl, mix sugar with lemon zest to create a lemon sugar. Add butter and beat until nice and creamy. Mix in the lemon juice. Add the flour and slowly incorporate until mixture comes together in a ball in your mixing bowl.
Using a small ice cream scoop, place balls of cookie dough on parchment paper or silpat. Bake for 10 – 15 minutes. Cool on cooling rack.
Put icing sugar in a small bowl, add cookies, one at a time, and roll in the icing sugar. Best eaten ever so slowly so you can savor each and every bite!! YUM!
These cookies can be frozen once cooled without the icing sugar. Thaw and roll in icing sugar.
NOTE: make sure your butter is REALLY soft…that will make your cookies come together better….if your butter is hard the cookies will be very crumbly and hard to roll.
Enjoy!
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Lemon Meltaways Cookies (makes 24 cookies)
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1 cup butter, salted (not margarine)1/3 cup sugar, plus 2 TBSP1 TBSP lemon zest (approx. 1 – 2 lemons)1 TBSP lemon juice, fresh2 ¼ cups all purpose flourIcing sugar, for dusting cookies
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a mixing bowl, mix sugar with lemon zest to create a lemon sugar. Add butter and beat until nice and creamy. Mix in the lemon juice. Add the flour and slowly incorporate until mixture comes together in a ball in your mixing bowl.
Using a small ice cream scoop, place balls of cookie dough on parchment paper or silpat. Bake for 10 – 15 minutes. Cool on cooling rack.
Put icing sugar in a small bowl, add cookies, one at a time, and roll in the icing sugar then eat these Lemon Meltaways ever so slowly and savor each and every bite. YUM!
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Just wrote down recipe. Can’t wait to make them. sounds delicious.
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Hope you love them as much as I do!! I just updated the recipe with 2 TBSP of lemon juice as some found the dough a little bit too crumbly!
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What is icing sugar ? Ingredients?
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Icing Sugar is the same as powdered sugar or confectioner’s sugar. Same sugar you use for making icing / frosting.
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Aloha! I want to try this recipe but am wondering if the butter should be cold & cut in small cubes, soft & room temp, or melted? Thank you!!
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Soft and room temperature …hope you like them!!
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These are so tasty! Not overly lemony but enough flavour to curb the craving. That icing sugar coating at the end really makes the cookie! I can’t wait for my boyfriend to come home and try them! He loves lemon everything.
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Thanks! Aren’t they just the yummiest! And yes that icing sugar makes the cookies. Wish I had one too now! Will have to make a batch for the freezer 🙂
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Just made these on a whim. Oh boy! Easy recipe and so yummy! Thank you for sharing it.
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Thanks Jenni! Isn’t it nice when a whim is so yummy!
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Do you think a lemon glaze would be good on these cookies?
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Hi Debbie, I’ve never tried them with a glaze. I would probably just use the glaze and not do them in the icing sugar…with the iglaze and icing sugar they might get a little gummy. Let me know how they turn out if you try the glaze. Happy Baking!
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Hi Debbie, I’ve never tried them with a glaze. I would probably just use the glaze and not do them in the icing sugar…with the glaze and icing sugar they might get a little gummy. Let me know how they turn out if you try the glaze. Happy Baking!
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so yummmy
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aren’t they just the BEST!
Happy Baking!
DD ⚓
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can you make this in a microwave
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I haven’t tried making these in a microwave but I don’t think it would have the same results as baking them in the oven.
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No you cannot make them in the microwave. Sorry!
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can you make this dough the night before and then bake next day?
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HI Sarah! I haven’t tried it but I would say yes you could. If you wanted to make them into balls and put them in the fridge then pop them in the oven the next day.
If you just wanted to refrigerate the dough as a big ball, I would bring it to room temperate to roll into balls.
Hope that helps!
Happy Baking!
DD ⚓
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