Soft Lemonade Cookies

These pillow soft cookies are the perfect summer treat!

Soft Lemonade Cookies // These pillow soft cookies are the perfect summer treat!

I will start out by saying that I love lemon savory dishes and lemonade, but I’m typically not largely a fan of lemon sweets. I was a bit skeptical of this but wanted to try it because I’m always willing to try something and hope that maybe I do like it. These are lemony but not overwhelmingly lemony and I think that’s why I liked them. They are still very much a sugar cookie with lemon flavor. They are super duper soft! I think it would be interesting to try turbinado sugar next go around because the granulated stuff just disappeared when I rolled the dough in it.

What you need:

  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened

  • 1 cup granulated sugar

  • 3 large eggs

  • 3 cups all purpose flour

  • 1 tsp. baking soda

  • 2/3 cup frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed and dived

  • Additional granulated sugar for rolling dough in

Directions:

  1. With a mixer, cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing until incorporated each time.

  2. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour and baking soda.

  3. Add half of the dry mixture in. Mix well.

  4. Then 1/3 cup (half) the lemonade concentrate. Mix well. Repeat with remaining dry mixture and lemonade concentrate.

  5. Chill dough for 1 to 2 hours.

  6. Take a tablespoon of cookie dough and roll into a ball. Then roll in granulated sugar.

  7. Place on a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet.

  8. Bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 8 to 10 minutes.

  9. Rest for a few minutes and then remove to a wire rack.

Recipe from Shaken Together Life

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