Recipe: Tasty Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Glaze

Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Glaze. For the glaze: In a bowl, add powdered sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest. If you like it thicker add more powdered sugar; if you like it thinner, add more lemon juice. I used the tines of a fork.

In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in vanilla, egg, lemon zest, and lemon juice. Slowly stir in flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. You can have Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Glaze using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Glaze

1. Prepare of Cookies.
2. You need 1 cup of Butter.
3. It's 1 cup of Sugar.
4. Prepare 1 of Egg.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of Vanilla.
6. You need 3 tbsp of Milk.
7. You need 1 1/2 tsp of Baking Powder.
8. You need 3 cup of Flour.
9. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Salt.
10. Prepare 1 tbsp of Fresh Lemon Juice.
11. Prepare 2 tsp of Grated Lemon Peel.
12. It's of Lemon Glaze.
13. Prepare 2 cup of Confectioners Sugar.
14. It's 2 tbsp of Finely grated Lemon Peel.
15. You need 1/3 cup of Fresh Lemon Juice.
16. It's 2 oz of Cream Cheese, softened.

Drizzle the glaze on the cooled cookies. Sprinkle with colored sprinkles, if desired. Allow the glaze to set, then store the cookies in an airtight container. Lemon Sugar Cookies: In a bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt, set aside.

Lemon Sugar Cookies with Lemon Glaze step by step

1. Preheat Oven to 325.
2. Cream Butter and Sugar in mixer.
3. Add Egg, Vanilla, & Milk.
4. Add Baking Powder, Flour and Salt.
5. Mix all well.
6. Drop teaspoons sized or slightly larger onto very lightly greased cookie sheets..
7. Press down the cookies into flat round cookie shapes with spoon or bottom of a glass.
8. Bake at 325 for 10 minutes.
9. Lemon Glaze:.
10. in mixing Bowl, cream together all ingredients for glaze..
11. **I let my glaze sit in the refrigerator while cookies are cooling to help it firm up a bit..
12. Let the cookies cool down completely then spread glaze onto each one with spoon..
13. **Glaze will be slighly runny but it will firm up once they sit. so glaze them on Wax paper or a protected counter top..

In another bowl, using a mixer, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in lemon juice, milk, eggs, vanilla, almond milk and lemon zest optional and continue mixing until combined. Add ½ of the dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix. Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl. Now add the vanilla, egg, lemon zest, and lemon juice to the bowl, continue to beat until combined.