Lemon Cooler Cookies are intensely flavored crispy cookies coated with another splash of lemon sugar for a lemon lovers dream.
Lemon Cooler Cookies
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
Lemon Cooler Cookies recipe post is sponsored in conjunction with #SpringSweetsWeek. I received product samples from sponsor companies to help in the creation of the #SpringSweetsWeek recipes. All opinions are mine alone.
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Lemon Cooler Cookies is my recipe of the day for the blogging event Spring Sweets Week. Associated bloggers will be posting yummy recipes all week long in relation to this. I am posting this recipe today, but will also be posting another delicious recipe on Friday. So say tuned!
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And there’s a giveaway (at the bottom of the post!)
Lemon Cooler Cookies have the great thing I love about certain desserts: an abundance of lemon flavor. From cookies to cakes to pies to lemonade ice creams, I love them all. Don’t you?
They have the feel of warm Spring and Summer weather for me. Full of nice zip, they are perfect with a cup of hot tea or a glass of ice cold lemonade. Packed as a dessert in lunches or just a snack time nibble. They are very all-purpose.
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No parchment paper or silicone mats is needed to bake on these. The cookies just slide right off.
Spring Sweets Week has been having collections of recipes each day. Follow your favorite bloggers to see them all, or search social media by he hashtag #SpringSweetsWeek.
Thursday #SpringSweetsWeek Recipes
- Carrot Cake Cupcakes from Art of Natural Living
- Coconut Lemon Scones from Cookaholic Wife
- Easter Malted Milk Chocolate Brownies from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
- Easy Mini Mango Tarts from Blogghetti
- Eggless Lemon Lavender Cupcakes from Magical Ingredients
- Honey Kumquat Mojito from The Spiffy Cookie
- Key Lime Shortbread Cookies from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
- Lemon Coolers Cookies from Palatable Pastime
- Lemon Sugar Cookie Bars with Raspberry Buttercream from Sweet Beginnings
- Tropical Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing from Jen Around the World
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Lemon Cooler Cookies with Sugar Sprinkle
I did add a little yellow color to brighten the dough. If you don’t use colorant, just leave it out. It’s up to you.
Lemon Coolers Cookies Before Baking
Notice the cross-hatch from the fork and my messiness with a little sugar falling off. No problem with that on the pan.
You can flatten with a glass or your hand if you like. But the old-fashioned fork suits me just fine.
The Lemon Coolers Cookies After Baking
You can see they puff just the right amount in the bake. But they retain their shape nicely. They are about the size, shape and thickness of a standard peanut butter cookie.
Except lemon of course!
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Lemon Cooler Cookies
Lemon Cooler Cookies
Equipment
- 1 Anolon nonstick cookie sheet
Ingredients
Cookie Dough Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 10 drops yellow food coloring optional
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons Penzey's powdered lemon peel
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Sugar Sprinkle:
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar sifted
- .23 ounce packet Kool-Aid unsweetened lemonade powdered drink mix
- 1 teaspoon vanilla powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Mix together the softened butter with the powdered sugar until smooth.
- Add the egg, vanilla and lemon extracts along with the food coloring (if using), mixing well.
- Add the remaining dough ingredients and stir until combined.
- Cover and refrigerate dough for thirty minutes.
- Separately, sift together the powdered sugar, lemonade drink mix and vanilla powder.
- When dough is chilled, use a one tablespoon size cookie scoop to measure dough, shaping into balls.
- Place those on the nonstick cookie sheet a couple of inches apart.
- Dip a fork into the sugar sprinkle and flatten the dough slightly into a crosshatch (as you would for peanut butter cookies).
- Bake for 12 minutes or until firm and just barely browned at the edges.
- Cool cookies just long enough that they don't burn your fingers handling them.
- Dredge each cookie into the sprinkle to coat with sugar and gently tap off excess.
- Cool completely before packing up.
- You can use any extra sugar sprinkle to sweeten lemonade if you like.
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