I went through several recipes for Lemon Crinkle Cookies from scratch (without cake mix). I’ve never made crinkle cookies before, so it was not easy to decide which recipe to try. In the end I decided to play it safe and try the award winning recipe from LDS Magazine. The winner of best cookie recipe was the Lemon Crinkle Cookie by Lauren Brennan from Lauren’s Latest. The cookies turned out fine, but if I make it again next time, I would add a little bit more baking powder (or baking soda) to get more crinkles.
Lemon Crinkle Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cups butter softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 whole egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cups powdered sugar for rolling
Instructions
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In a bowl, cream together butter and sugar until fluffy.
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Add egg, vanilla extract, lemon juice and zest and mix.
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Stir in remaining ingredients (except powdered sugar) until just combined.
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Pour powdered sugar into a shallow dish. Take a part of the dough, roll it into a walnut size ball and roll in powdered sugar. Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Repeat with remaining dough.Bake in 350 degrees F oven for about 10 minutes or until bottoms of cookies begin to barely brown. Cool cookies before removing from baking sheet.
I made these the other day and i left the dough in the fridge overnight and when they baked tomorrow they were puffier, more ball shaped, yours and Lauren’s look prettier but they were still very tasty, I added a lemony drizzle on top for extra lemony flavor, I think that for it to look like yours the dough shouldn’t be in the fridge at all.