Lemon cookies
Rolling the cookie dough in extra sugar means that that sweetness is the first thing that will hit your tongue when you take a bite. You can also use a silicone baking mat instead! It also prevents the cookies from burning or sticking on the bottom and makes for easier clean up.
The thing is, these Soft and Chewy Lemon Sugar Cookies may not be loaded up and oozing with crazy fillings, but they are intensely flavorful thanks to a combination of lemon zest and lemon juice, and their dense, chewy texture makes them a joy to sink your teeth into.
Who would have thought that lemon sugar cookies could trump gooey, chewy chocolate chip, or dreamy, giant peanut butter cookies? I definitely didn’t. Or their favorite cookies they’ve ever had. And while I have a bit of a reputation ’round here for making awesome cookies (not to pat myself on the back too much), several of my friends proclaimed these to be the best cookies I’ve ever made. Of course I shared some with friends throughout the process, both for feedback and to get some of the cookies out of my house, where my self-control is seemingly non-existent. And I just kept going for weeks on end until they were the greatest lemon cookies I could possibly imagine ever coming out of my kitchen- or any kitchen– and yes, I ate cookies from every batch. That is to say that I’ve made about 20 batches of cookies in the testing process, eaten them all, cried to myself about how a girl cannot survive on cookies alone, and then continued to eat some more in the name of “recipe-testing”. As tends to be the case with all of my cookie recipes, this one has been a while in the works.