Lemon Meltaway Cookies

5 from 5 votes

These lemon meltaway cookies are a bite of lemony freshness that will make you dream of summer days.

Prep Time5

Cook Time8

Cool Time30

Total Time43

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Lemon Meltaway Cookies Recipe

Servings: cookies

Calories: 219kcal

Preheat the oven to 375°F.
In a medium-sized mixing bowl, mix butter and white sugar.
Add the egg and continue to mix until combined.
Stir in the lemon zest.
Combine flour and baking powder and add it in batches to the wet ingredients until fully mixed.
Take about 2 teaspoons of the dough and shape it into a ball in your hands.
Place onto a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet and flatten just a little.
Bake for 8 minutes then remove from oven.
After a few minutes, transfer to a wire cooling rack. Cookies will need to be completely cooled before glazing.
In a small mixing bowl add the confectioner’s sugar, lemon juice, and cream then stir until combined.
Spoon a little onto each cookie, spreading toward the edges.
TIP: The glaze will take about 15 minutes to set before eating.
Decorate with a bit of lemon zest.

If you prefer, you could use lemon extract instead of zesting the lemons. The rule of thumb is ½ teaspoon of lemon extract per one teaspoon of zest.
When removing the zest from the lemons, be careful not to overdo it and get the white of the lemon, which can be very bitter. The zestiness is in just the yellow skin.
Pressing a little on each cookie dough ball will help the cookie not be too much like a ball unless you like it like that. They do melt pretty well, though, so don’t press too much.