Lemon sugar cookie. In a large bowl, beat butter, sugars and oil until blended. Combine flour, baking soda and cream of tartar; stir into butter mixture (dough will be stiff). Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Place each ball of cookie dough into the bowl of lemon sugar and roll to coat well. Add eggs, vanilla, lemon juice, and lemon zest and stir to combine. You can have Lemon sugar cookie using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Lemon sugar cookie

It's 1 cup of cold butter cut into cubes.
It's 2 cups of sugar.
It's 2 of eggs.
Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp of fresh lemon juice.
It's 1 tbsp of lemon zest, may put more for flavor.
You need 3 cups of flour.
You need 1 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
Prepare 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
It's as required of use yellow food coloring for colour(optional).

Stir in flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and mix just until combined. Mix in the flour, one cup at a time. Roll the dough into a ball, roll the cookie dough ball in Coarse or Sparkling Sugar and then place it on a cookie sheet. Lemon sugar cookies are what most consider to be "old fashioned".

Lemon sugar cookie instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees..
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar for 4 minutes until light and fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla, lemon juice, and lemon zest and stir to combine..
Stir in flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and mix just until combined..
Drop dough onto light-colored baking sheet..
Bake for 9-11 minutes. Sprinkle with sugar or white sparkling sugar..

They are made with butter and create a fluffy mound of soft cookie instead with a crunchy sugar outside. I made these with lemon flavor instead of vanilla. It is a fun way to mix up the usual. On waxed paper, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. In large bowl, with mixer on low speed, beat.