Easy Light and Fluffy Lemon Cookies Recipe (video)

[Saviolo]

I love lemon. It is easily one of my favourite flavours, and we got some really great fresh lemons recently and decided to find something interesting to do with them! We researched a few lemon cookies to come to this recipe, but for our final recipe, we ended up cutting the sugar in half from just about all of the recipes we found. They are still plenty sweet, but you get a great bright lemon flavour from them. I can't imagine how sweet the other recipes are!

Most of the lemon aroma comes from the lemon oil in the zest included in this recipe. The juice adds a little bit of acidity to the flavour, but you definitely don't want to skimp on the zest for that amazing lemon zing. We use vanilla paste for this, but lemon extract will work just fine for these. Once formed into balls and gently squished, you can freeze the cookies on a sheet pan and keep them in the freezer for a couple of months and take a couple out to bake from frozen when you want fresh cookies!

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[Diamond_Dog]

1. My middle son worked in a bakery when he was in college.

He said anything lemon never sold well, not even lemon Pazcki, and was usually offered to the folks who came for the day old goods from the food banks. We both love lemon anything and could never understand it.

[Saviolo]

4. Wild.

I mean, I've definitely seen lemon done badly. There's an excellent bakery in my old neighourhood that I love and go back to whenever I can. However, they do a lemon brulee tart that seems like it would be great in concept, but something's not right about it. I think they caramelize the sugar on top a little too dark, and the bitterness really overrides the tartness of the lemon and really enhances the bitterness and astringency. But that's just one example. There are lots of examples of lemon done right!

But by and large, I love lemon stuff.

[LudwigPastorius]

2. No indication of the amount of sugar, flour, baking powder, etc.

I could probably come close by eyeing it, but why would they make a recipe video without…the recipe?

[Saviolo]

3. The full recipe is in the description

The video is really just to visualize the method, but the full recipe is in the description with amounts, cooking times, and notes on how things work.

[LudwigPastorius]

5. So it is.

I initially pulled it up on my phone, and I guess YouTube truncates the descriptions for mobile browsing.

Thanks!