Easy Cut Out Lemon Sugar Cookie Recipe
Adding a fresh twist to the classic cut out sugar cookie, this recipe of lemon sugar cookie will be a great addition to your cookie recipe collection. Easy to roll out and with a simple glaze idea that will brighten up your cookie spread.
Servings: 36 cookies
Ingredients
For the Dough:
- 3 cups All-purpose flour + more for dusting
- 2 teaspoon Baking powder
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 cup Butter or 2 sticks, cold and cut into chunks
- 1 Egg large
- ¾ teaspoon Pure vanilla extract
- 1 Lemon zested and juiced
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
For the glaze:
- 1.5 cups Confectioners’ sugar
- 2 tablespoon Milk or half-and-half
- 1.5 tablespoon Lemon juice
- Red and green gel food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F or 175 degrees C.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer, cream sugar and butter at medium speed. Mix the flour and baking powder in a mixing bowl, set aside.
- To the butter and sugar mixture, add the egg, vanilla extract, lemon zest and juice and mix in on low speed.
- Gradually add the flour mixture and beat on low speed until just combined, scraping down the bowl.
- Transfer the dough out on a floured kitchen counter, the dough will be crumbly, so knead it together with your hands just a little bit.
- Using a rolling pin, roll the dough to about ¼″ to ⅜″ thick, and cut into desired shapes (stars in this case). If you do not have a shaped cookie cutter, you could also use a glass jar or cup to cut a circular shape.
- Place on parchment or silicone mat lined baking sheets and bake for 10-12 minutes. Let sit a few minutes on the cookie sheet, and then transfer to a cooling rack. Let cool completely.
- While the cookies are cooling, make the glaze.
- In a medium bowl, whisk all glaze ingredients except the food coloring until smooth. Take another bowl and divide the glaze into two parts.
- Drip a few drops of gel food coloring on top of glaze in each bowl, then swirl with the tip of a paring knife for a marbled effect.
- Dip the cooled cookies into the glaze, letting any excess drip off, then place on a wire rack to set for 15 minutes before serving or packing.
Notes
For more distinct marbling for all the cookies, add a tablespoon of glaze into a separate bowl for each color and make a lighter shade of the food color. Then add a few drops of this to the glaze bowl along with a few drops of straight up gel color.