Description
These spring Lemon Lavender Cookies are delicious melt in your mouth buttery cookies. Made with a lemon and lavender glaze for a completely divine cookie!
Ingredients
Scale
Cookies
- 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅔ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon dried lavender buds
- zest of 1 lemon
- ½ cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 1 egg (room temperature)
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Lemon Lavender Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar (sifted)
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon lavender syrup
Instructions
Cookies
- Take the butter and egg out 30 minutes to an hour prior to starting the recipe to allow them to come to room temperature.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.
- In a food processor, blend the sugar, lavender buds and lemon zest together until fragrant.
- Beat the butter and sugar mixture until light and fluffy.
- Add the egg, lemon juice and vanilla extract to the butter and sugar and mix to incorporate.
- In two batches add the flour mixture until dough forms.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- When ready to bake the cookies preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Roll the dough into balls and flaten between your hands to get a flat circle about ½ inch in height. Place the cookies on a cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes.
Lemon Lavender Glaze
- Using a fork or whisk, mix the sifted powdered sugar, melted butter, lemon juice and lavender syrup together.
- Spoon onto the cooled cookies and top with extra lavender buds.
Notes
- If you want perfect circles, you can roll the dough into logs before refrigerating and then slice before baking or use a cookie press gun to get the desired shape.
- Whatever shape you make the dough, know it will hold it. So, if you roll the dough in balls and bake them, they won’t flatten out.
- If you need to substitute the lavender syrup in the glaze, add ½-1 tablespoon milk in its place. Add a small amount until you reach your desired consistency.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Chill Time: 2 hours
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories: 118kcal
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 46mg
- Fat: 4g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Trans Fat: 1g
- Carbohydrates: 19g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 1g