Recipe Lemon Sugar Cookies

Beat in eggs and extract.

Recipe lemon sugar cookies. Lightly press each cookie down. Preheat oven to 350. In a medium bowl cream together butter and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy.

Add eggs vanilla lemon juice and lemon zest and stir to combine. Let the cookies cool on the pans for 5 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely about 30 minutes. Put the sugar and lemon zest in the bowl of a stand mixer or in a large.

Apart on ungreased baking sheets. When ready to bake preheat oven to 350 degrees f. Drop dough onto light colored baking sheet.

Roll the ball in the lemon sugar. Stir into butter mixture dough will be stiff. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and beat until combined for about 30 seconds.

Stir in flour baking soda and baking powder. Put the 1 2 cup of the sugar in a shallow bowl. Place on a prepared baking sheet and repeat until all the dough is in cookie balls.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. If you don t have 1 4 cup squeeze the juice from the second lemon. Roll the lemon cookie dough into a 1 1 2 inch ball and roll it in the sugar.