Recipe: Perfect Lemon sugar cookie

Lemon sugar cookie.

You can have Lemon sugar cookie using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lemon sugar cookie

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

Lemon sugar cookie step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees..
2. 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..
3. Stir in flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and mix just until combined..
4. Drop dough onto light-colored baking sheet..
5. Bake for 9-11 minutes. Sprinkle with sugar or white sparkling sugar..