Lemon Crinkle Cookies

Lemon Crinkle Cookies

🥘 Ingredients

  • baking powder
    1/2 teaspoon
  • baking soda
    1/4 teaspoon
  • butter (cold and cut into cubes)
    1/2 cup
  • egg (room temperature)
    1
  • flour (all-purpose)
    1 1/2 cups
  • lemon juice (fresh, juice from 2 small lemons, approximately, strained)
    2 tablespoons
  • lemon zest (zest from 2 small lemons, approximately)
    1 tablespoon
  • powdered sugar
    1/4 cup
  • salt (kosher)
    1/2 teaspoon
  • sugar (granulated)
    1 cup
  • vanilla
    1/2 teaspoon

🍳 Cookware

  • bowl
  • stand mixer
  • baking sheet
  • cooling rack
  1. 1
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silpats and set aside
  2. 2
    Prepare cookie batter: In the bowl of a stand mixer , cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about ⏱️ 2-3 minutes . Mix in vanilla , egg , lemon zest , and lemon juice . Scrape sides of the bowl and mix again until well incorporated. With mixer off, add in flour , salt , baking powder , and baking soda and stir until just combined. Scrape sides of bowl and stir again briefly. Pour powdered sugar onto a plate. Roll a heaping teaspoon of dough into a ball and roll in powdered sugar. Place on baking sheet and repeat with remaining dough
    butter: 1/2 cup (cold and cut into cubes), sugar: 1 cup (granulated), vanilla: 1/2 teaspoon, egg: 1 (room temperature), lemon zest: 1 tablespoon (zest from 2 small lemons, approximately), lemon juice: 2 tablespoons (fresh, juice from 2 small lemons, approximately, strained), flour: 1 1/2 cups (all-purpose), salt: 1/2 teaspoon (kosher), baking powder: 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda: 1/4 teaspoon, powdered sugar: 1/4 cup
  3. 3
    Bake cookies: Bake for ⏱️ 9-11 minutes or until cookies are just turning golden brown on the edges and the tops look cracked and crinkly. Remove cookies from the oven and cool on trays for ⏱️ 10 minutes before transferring to cooling rack
  4. 📝

    Servings: 26 cookies