This Lemon Drop Cookie Recipe is super easy to make and will take your taste buds on a wild ride they’ll remember! That sounded more exciting than, “These cookies are really good”! Either way — try ’em. You’ll thank me!
Lemon Drop Cookies
These are seriously the easiest cookies I’ve ever made and SO delicious — if you’re a fan of lemon that is.
Ingredients:
- 1 (18.25 oz) lemon cake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- juice from 1 fresh lemon
- 1 package lemonade Kool-aid (unsweetened)
- *optional – lemon zest
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar (do NOT mix this in the cookie dough)
Maddie doesn’t like the lemon zest…something about the texture. I think it adds more flavor but it’s good either way.
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Mix all ingredients (except the powdered sugar) together until well blended (by hand or in an electric mixer)
- Use a teaspoon to scoop dough and drop it into a bowl of powdered sugar and roll them until coated. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 7-9 minutes until the bottoms are light brown.
Don’t overwork the dough. Just scoop a spoonful, gently pat into a soft ball and coat with powdered sugar. Don’t roll them into tight, hard balls.
Let them cool completely before you consume. These cookies are definitely best cooled.
Unlike Chocolate chip, peanut butter, Snickerdoodle, Oatmeal raisin, Oatmeal chocolate chip, everything but the kitchen sink…
Enjoy. And if you are taking off for a Spring Break fling: be safe, make good choices and have fun!
Wink!
Pamela says
Cool. These look like the red velvet cake cookies my cousin gave me the recipe for. Going to try these.
Victoria says
I was so excited to make these and devour them….
Except after mixing together everything (except the powdered sugar, as instructed), the dough was more like batter and so sticky that I couldn’t even get it to roll into balls. I even tried multiple tricks to try to get it to harden with no success. All it did was stick to my fingers. I was at a loss so scooped some into a muffin pan to see if I could turn it into anything edible.
Fingers crossed!
Juli says
Yes, batter sticks to fingers…you need to use spoon, toss into BOWL of powdered sugar, roll around with fingers until coated with p. sugar, then lift out and toss onto cookie sheet. I recommend quadrupling recipe and bake 7 mins. I made these tonite….omg so so good and I ate way more than I should have. YUMMY!
Juli says
P|S – I added a dollop of lemon icing on top of each cookie for added decadence… and of course calories, but worth it. Enjoy.