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Lemon Sugar Cookies
These Lemon Sugar Cookies are sweet and crunchy on the outside and soft and lemony on the inside!
Ingredients
1/3 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 1/2 teaspoons lemon extract
Zest from 1 lemon
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Small pinch of fresh nutmeg (a few grates of a whole nutmeg against a microplane)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup white sparkling sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line 3 cookie sheets with a sheet of parchment paper.
- With a mixer, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy (about 2 minutes on high).
- Add eggs to the butter and sugar mixture and mix to combine.
- Add lemon juice, lemon extract and lemon zest and mix again.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt. Whisk until ingredients are well combined.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until combined.
- Place the white sparkling sugar in a small, flat bowl.
- Using a small cookie scoop, measure out and form a ball of dough with your hands. Then roll each dough ball in the sparkling sugar, coating well. Place the coated dough balls on the prepared cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart. (about 12-15 per pan)
- Bake for 10 minutes. Remove the cookie sheet(s) from the oven but leave the oven on. Carefully press down on each cookie with a flat-bottomed glass so that the cookie flattens a bit and the outer edges of the cookie crackle a little. Bake for 2 additional minutes. Baking multiple pans at once may extend baking time.
- Carefully remove each cookie to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Notes
Adapted from The Restless Chipotle
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