Our Lemon Cookie Recipe makes a lemony sugar crusted icebox cookie, sprinkled with more lemon sugar on top. They’re one of my favorite soft butter cookies, with a wonderful fresh lemon flavor! These are great Christmas cookies to share with family and friends, they travel well and an excellent lemon cookie for Christmas cookies tables!

Icebox cookies are the perfect cookie to have on hand for fresh baked Christmas cookies. Keep a roll of these icebox sugar cookies in the refrigerator for an easy slice and bake treat!

00:00 Lemon Cookie Recipes
00:30 Lemon Cookie Ingredients
00:42 Dry Ingredients
01:08 Lemon Zest
01:20 Blending Butter and Sugar
02:01 Add Egg Yolks, Vanilla and Lemon Zest
02:30 Add Dry Ingredients
03:01 Shape Icebox Cookies Into Logs
03:26 Add Lemon Sugar to Icebox Cookies
04:02 Slice Lemon Cookies

Lemon Butter Cookies Recipe Ingredients
1 cup of butter
1 cup sugar
2 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp lemon zest
2 ¼ cups flour
¼ tsp salt

Lemon Cookie Recipe Directions
In a large bowl, measure out 2 ¼ cups flour, ¼ teaspoon kosher salt. For this recipe, I’ve used a mortar and pestle to give the salt a quick crush so the grains are a little smaller, making them easier to more evenly in the batter. Give the try ingredients a whisk to combine, and set it aside for later.

Next, zest one large lemon. You’ll need about 2 teaspoons for this recipe.

In another large bowl, add the 16 tablespoons of softened butter. Using a hand or stand mixer, beat the butter for a minute or two. Add 1 cup of sugar, and continue beating the mixture for another 2 minutes, stopping to scrape the sides of the bowl. After about 2 minutes, the butter sugar mixture will be light yellow and creamy.

Add in two egg yolks, a teaspoon of vanilla, and a teaspoon of lemon zest. Beat to blend, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl. Gradually add in the flour, blending between and scraping down the sides of the bowl.

Place half of the cookie dough on a piece of parchment, and shape it into a log shape, about an inch and a half wide. The dough for these lemon icebox cookies is very buttery and it’ll be soft. Putting it refrigerator will make it firmer and easier to roll. Repeat for the second half of dough and refrigerate for about 20 minutes.

While the dough is chilling, combine a 1/4 cup of sugar with the rest of the lemon zest, and whisk well to combine.

When the dough has chilled for about 20 minutes, remove it from the refrigerator, and now that it's not quite so squishy, form it into a more round log. Sprinkle with the lemon sugar, and use the parchment paper to roll and press the sugar into the sides of the dough. Repeat with the second log of chilled cookie dough and return the dough to the refrigerator for another hour.

Then, preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Once your oven is up to temperature, take the icebox cookie dough out of the refrigerator and slice into 1 inch pieces. Space about 2 inches apart on parchment lined cookie sheets. And I like to sprinkle the tops with leftover lemon sugar.

Bake for 20 25 minutes in the 325 oven, cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

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