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These Soft Lemon Cookies are sweet, chewy and easy to make! This recipe uses a lemon cake mix plus cream cheese and butter! Rolled in powdered sugar, they are a pretty and light treat for any holiday gathering!
Ingredients Needed For Soft Lemon Cookies
- cream cheese
- salted butter
- large egg
- lemon extract
- lemon cake mix
- confectioners sugar
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Pre-heat your oven to 375 and line a sheet pan with parchment. In a large bowl, mix the softened butter and cream cheese with a hand mixer.
Next beat in the egg and vanilla until well incorporated. Then beat in the dry lemon cake mix.
Now, using a cookie scoop or tablespoon form dough into one inch balls. Then roll dough in confectioners sugar and place on parchment lined cookie sheet.
Continue with remaining dough. I baked these in two batches but if you have two sheet pans you can do them all at once. If you do them in batches, I suggest letting the sheet pan cool for a few minutes before adding the cookie dough so it doesn’t start to melt.
Bake for 11- 13 minutes, but check at the 11 minute mark. Mine were cooked perfectly by then but everyone’s oven if different.
Transfer cookies to cooling rack and continue if making in batches.
Hope you enjoy!
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Soft Lemon Cookies
- Total Time: 21 minutes
- Yield: 28 Cookies 1x
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup salted butter, softened
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp lemon extract
- 1 box lemon cake mix
- 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 and line a sheet pan with parchment.
- In a large bowl, mix softened cream cheese and butter with a hand mixer.
- Mix in egg and lemon extract.
- Mix in dry cake mix.
- Using a cookie scoop or tablespoon, form dough into balls and roll in powdered sugar.
- Place rolled cookie dough on sheet pan.
- Repeat with remaining dough.
- Bake for 11 – 13 minutes.
- Cool on wire rack.
- Repeat with remaining cookie dough if baking in multiple batches.
- Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 11 mins
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking