Description
THE BEST lemon sugar cookies that are thick, soft, chewy, and topped with silky lemon cream cheese buttercream.
Ingredients
Scale
Soft Sugar Cookies
- 3 1/2 C Flour (All Purpose)
- 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Cream of Tartar
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 C Salted Butter (Room Temp)
- 1/2 C Sugar
- 1/2 C Powdered Sugar
- 1/3 C Canola Oil (Or vegetable oil)
- 1 Lg Egg (+ 1 Egg Yolk)
- 2 TBSP Sour Cream (Room Temp)
- 1/2 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- Juice and Zest of 1 Lemon
Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
- 4 ounces(1/2 Block) Cream Cheese, at room temperature
- 4 TBSP Unsalted Butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- Juice and Zest of 1 Lemon
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 2 1/2 C Powdered Sugar
Instructions
For the Cookies
- In a mixing bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, cream of tartar, and salt. Set aside.
- in the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugars for 3 minutes.
- With the mixer on low, stream in the oil until combined.
- Add the vanilla, egg, egg yolk, sour cream, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Mix until combined.
- Mix in the dry ingredients 1/2 at a time until just combined.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350 and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Use a large 3 TBSP cookie scoop to portion the dough and roll it into a ball in your hands.
- Bake 5-6 cookies per sheet at 350 for 10 minutes.
- While the cookies are still hot use a measuring cup or a flat bottomed glass to flatten the cookies to 1/2″ thick creating the crinkled edges. Allow cookies to cool completely on the hot cookie sheet.
For the Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
- Use a hand mixer to cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth.
- Add the powdered sugar 1/2 at a time and mix until smooth.
- Mix in the vanilla, lemon juice, and lemon zest.
- Once cookies are cooled, dust with powdered sugar.
- Then, use a 1 TBSP scoop to top the cookies with the frosting and use an offset spatula to spread almost to the edges of the cookies, leaving the crinkled edges exposed.
Notes
*Cookies will be doughy coming out of the oven, but allow them to cool completely on the hot cookie sheet and they will set up.
Keywords: lemon sugar cookies, frosted lemon sugar cookies, lemon cream cheese frosting, soft lemon sugar cookies