Lemon Crinkle Cookies!
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Soft, buttery and zingy lemon crinkle cookies with an icing sugar coating, that are melt in your mouth perfect.
Say hello to your new favourite cookie obsession, the lemon crinkle cookie. The perfect spring cookie bake that you’ll want to make over and over again.
Lemon bakes
When it comes to baking with lemon, I am already obsessed. I can’t help but be interested when someone says “I’m baking lemon…” no matter what that bake is. After endless lemon based bakes on this blog such as my Lemon Meringue Blondies, my Lemon Drizzle Traybake, and my Lemon and Raspberry Cake, I wanted to do another lemon based cookie.
When it comes to lemon cookies, I adore my Glazed Lemon Cookies, but I wanted to bake another gloriously delicious lemon based cookie. I just have an addiction to the zesty and zingy flavour at the moment and I can’t get enough.
Cookies
When it comes to cookies, you can say that I am pretty much obsessed. I adore them, they are probably my favourite thing to make at the moment and have been for a while, and a lot of you adore my cookie recipes as well. My chocolate chip nyc cookies are pretty much one of the top three bakes on this blog now, and I am not stopping with my cookie obsession any time soon.
I think trying different types of cookies is always fun in baking as well though with my homemade Jammie dodgers, to my homemade bourbon biscuits… I have room for all cookies in my life. These cookies are a little different to them all, and I adore that.
Crinkle Cookies
So, crinkle cookies… these are quite a unique type of cookie, that I recently have been baking over and over and I can’t stop. The classic is a chocolate flavour, which I will develop and write soon, but honestly? I wanted to try a different version to the classic to start
- Lemon – So as I wanted these to be super lemon like, I used the zest of 3 lemons. However, 2tsps lemon extract will work well
- Sugar – I use caster sugar as I wanted the lighter colour for the cookie
- Oil – I tend to use sunflower oil, but vegetable oil works well
- Eggs – medium eggs as always, guys!
- Flour – plain flour is important here because you want to control the raising agent better
- Baking powder – and as mentioned above, only 1 tsp for the quantity of flour is all you need
- Salt – I adore a pinch of salt in these, it balances the flavour perfectly
Baking
Making the dough for these cookies is quite easy, and I just use my stand mixer to whack it together. The dough needs chilling once made, before you scoop it, and I promise you it’s worth the wait.
The part of these cookies that I adore is that they have the sweetness of the icing sugar around the outside, and it also creates a beautiful pattern that I adore. It may sound a little weird to have icing sugar on raw cookie dough if you haven’t experienced these cookies before, but trust the process.
I tend to scoop my crinkle cookies with my cookie scoop of spoons, and roll into the icing sugar immediately – and then add to my lined trays. Make sure your oven is fully pre-heated at this point as you’ll want them to go straight into the oven after coating in the sugar.
Bake them on the lined trays, and leave to cool and you have the best lemon crinkle cookies ever.
Tips & Tricks
- If you want these to be slightly more yellow in colour, you can add some food colouring to the cookie dough but I personally don’t bother.
- You can swap the lemon zest to 2tsps of lemon extract, but avoid using lemon juice as it’s too much ‘wet’ for the dough and won’t bring the flavour you want.
- These will last for 4-5+ days at room temperature, and they will also freeze for 3+ months
- I use this cookie scoop
- I use these large baking trays
Lemon Crinkle Cookies!
Ingredients
- Zest of 3 lemons
- 225 g caster sugar
- 75 ml sunflower oil
- 3 medium eggs
- 400 g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 50 g icing sugar
Instructions
- Add the flour, baking powder, caster sugar and salt to a bowl and mix
- Add the lemon zest, eggs, oil and mix
- Add to a bowl and chill for an hour
- Preheat the oven to 190ºc/170ºfan and line two large baking trays
- Grab tablespoon scoops of the cookie dough and roll into a ball
- Roll these into icing sugar and place onto the trays
- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes
- Leave to cool and enjoy
Notes
- If you want these to be slightly more yellow in colour, you can add some food colouring to the cookie dough but I personally don't bother.
- You can swap the lemon zest to 2tsps of lemon extract, but avoid using lemon juice as it's too much 'wet' for the dough and won't bring the flavour you want.
- These will last for 4-5+ days at room temperature, and they will also freeze for 3+ months
- I use this cookie scoop
- I use these large baking trays
ENJOY!
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I love these cookies and the chocolate ones too! They’re so quick and easy and always turn out absolutely delicious! I was wondering if there a way to substitute the egg to make them vegan?
This recipe is an absolute staple in our house. They go down a treat each time. I’ve even made vanilla versions of this and they taste just as yummy 🤤
I so wish I could show you my results. They were delicious and looked identical. I was blown away with the texture, the taste, gorgeous. And the amount. I was nervy about how many it would make, there were alot of cookies, but after tasting the first one, I understood why. I shared a few. I fully intended to shared more but it didn’t happen. I’m partially disabled and I can only stand for minutes, so for ne, thus recipe was great because I didn’t have to spend ages preparing them. Excellent recipe. Many thanks Janespatisserie.
I made these the other day. Absolutely MORESOME. I don’t know how you say they can keep for several days, my grandchildren cleaned then all up in one sitting , ate some & took the rest home to have with their lunch the next day.
This is the first time I’ve baked something that actually looks like the photos and tastes great, I added white chocolate chips to mine and they are unbelievable
Hiya, I made these for my so. And they were great. However he’s type one diabetic, do you have any nutritional info for your recipes to help us?
Thanks
that’s the best cookie i’ve ever done!!!!
Hi, I’ve made these before and loved them but now trying to reduce my consumption of seed oils… is there a sub you’d recommend for the sunflower oil!?
Hi, I tried to make theses last night I followed everything on the rescip correctly and once u took them out the fridge I managed to roll 2 into balls but then it started sticking to my hand so couldn’t roll them. I put the 2 I had rolled into the oven for the time it said and they dint bake they just came put flat and under cooked?
Hey! This sounds like an incorrect ingredient was used or something wasn’t measured accurately – what oil did you use? x
I use vegetable oil and works great.
Can you leave them in the fridge over night?
For sure!
My mixture isn’t very wet at all. Is this right?
Sorry, what butter? You asked someone what type of butter they used but the recipe says oil. I am totally confused. I’ve just put the dough in the fridge. Hoping it works. I’ll update accordingly
I have already made these & they looked lovely.
The question is if freezing the rolled balls of dough is it best to roll in icing sugar before freezing or when they are taken out to bake?
Thank you
It’s probably easier to do it after to get best results! x
I made these today I cooked for 14 minutes and the middle still seems a little raw? I also didnt get the icing sugar pattern, it seemed to disappear during baking , any idea why this might have happened? I sprinkled some on after
This sounds like the temp of your oven may be too low so the sugar has basically soaked off and made the cookies not bake properly – try a slightly higher temp! x
I’ve just made these for my citrus-obsessed partner and he’s very excited!
I left the mixture in the fridge for around an hour, but it still seems to be too wet to roll in to balls. Do I add a little icing sugar to the mixture, or is there something else I can try? I’ve popped it back in the fridge for now 😅
Thanks! 🖤
I would add a little extra flour, or freeze before baking if you can? Try and firm it up a little! x
If I make a batch, can I freeze them? And if so, do I bake from frozen?
Can the raw cookies be frozen then baked from frozen