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Lemon Crinkle Cookies

the perfect amount of sweet and tart! This is the cookie that spring and summer parties are made of.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 13 minutes
Servings: 38 cookies (roughly)
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ½ cup softened butter
  • 1 egg
  • ½ lemon the juice and zest
  • 2-3 tsp lemon emulsion emulsion holds the taste better however you can use extract if you prefer
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ¼ tsp salt
for rolling
  • ½ cup powdered sugar in its own container
  • ½ cup granulated sugar in its own container
optional
  • yellow coloring

Equipment

Method
 

    if you want to add in coloring for a more yellow cookie add it to the butter first, the fats help the color be more vibrant! and adding it now will also help it more evenly distribute
  1. cream together the soft butter and sugar until no longer grainy (3-5 minutes)
    2. I had someone teach me that adding the zest first to the sugar will help release even more lemon flavor! this would be done before creaming the butter into it!
  2. while the butter and sugar are creaming zest and juice your lemon
  3. add the vanilla extract, egg, lemon juice, lemon zest, and lemon emulsion and mix until fully incorporated
  4. add in your dry ingredients and mix just until there is no longer white visible (overmixing the flour leads to a dense cookie)
  5. portion out your dough- I use a 2TBS scoop to do this
rolling
  1. place your powdered sugar in one container (a bowl is fine!) and the granulated sugar in a separate container
  2. roll each dough ball first in granulated sugar and second in powdered sugar
    3. rolling in granulated sugar first helps the powdered sugar not absorb into the dough so you get a better crinkle effect!
  3. I like to refrigerate my dough overnight. i do this after it has been rolled in the sugars. if you do not want to refrigerate it that is fine just note they may spread a bit more!
baking
  1. place your cookie dough balls on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake at 325 for about 13 minutes until the edges just start to get some color

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