Ingredients needed to make lemon cookies.
What You’ll Need
These easy lemon cookies require less than 10 ingredients! They are made with pantry staples, so you likely have most of what you’ll need on hand. Scroll down to the recipe card for a printable ingredients list with amounts.
Butter – Butter should be softened to room temperature for easing mixing.
Eggs – Divided, since you’ll use eggs at different points in the recipe.
Lemon Zest and Juice – You’ll need lemon zest and lemon juice for the cookie dough. Zest the lemon before you juice it!
Flour – I use a combination of all-purpose flour and almond flour. You can use only all-purpose, or you can make almond flour by grinding almonds into a fine powder using a food processor.
Sugar – I like to use superfine or caster sugar in the cookie dough. It makes the cookies very soft. I also dust the tops of the cookies with powdered sugar for serving.
Lemon Slices – This part is optional, but the original recipe calls for topping each cookie with a lemon slice before baking. In this case, you’ll need additional lemons washed, dried, and cut into very thin slices.
How to Make Lemon Cookies
Lemon cookies are surprisingly easy to make! The dough needs a bit of resting time, but there’s only 20 minutes or so of hands-on time in between. Here are the steps:
Cookie dough shaped into two logs.
Shape the dough into logs.
Cookies on a baking tray being brushed with egg.
Slice, brush, and bake!
Make the dough. First, cream butter with the egg and lemon zest, then slowly add the flour, sugar, and lemon juice to form the dough. Divide and shape the dough into two logs.
Chill. Next, wrap each log in plastic wrap and place the dough in the fridge to chill.
Make the cookies. Fast forward 3 hours, and you’ll slice the logs into cookies. Arrange the cookies on a baking sheet. Brush the cookies with an egg wash, place a lemon slice over each cookie, and sprinkle with sugar.
Bake. Finally, bake these lemon cookies at 350ºF for 12-15 minutes. Let the cookies cool and then dust with powdered sugar, if desired.
Lemon cookies stacked on top of each other next to a glass of milk.
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