Easy glazed lemon cookies that melt in your mouth and taste like sunshine

These easy glazed lemon cookies taste like sunshine and include a tender shortbread cookie topped with a sweet lemon glaze. An old favorite from Grandma’s recipe box and affectionately known as lemon blossom cookies, they’re sure to be a favorite at your house.

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup softened unsalted butter
• 1/3 cup bottled or fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Glaze

• 1.5 cups confectioner’s sugar
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• few drops yellow food coloring optional

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, combine butter and sugar. Mix well with an electric mixer until creamy and combined. Add in lemon juice and mix again.
2. In a separate bowl, stir together (with a spoon) the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add this flour mixture to the butter mixture and beat with an electric mixer until well incorporated and a dough forms. Cover or wrap the dough and refrigerate for an hour.
3. Roll out dough to a 1/4-inch thickness on a floured surface. Cut with a small circle cutter (I used 1.5-inch). Place cookies on ungreased baking sheets and bake at 400 for about 8 minutes. Remove to cool.

To make glaze

Combine the glaze ingredients in a small bowl and stir with a spoon until lumps disappear. Spoon a little bit into the center of each cooled cookie and spread it around with the back of a spoon. Make more glaze if needed. Allow to dry for an hour or so and then stack cookies and store in a cookie jar.