# Lemon Cookies

A recipe for super easy homemade lemon cookies made from lemon scraps.

- Total time: 30 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Dessert
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 lemon scraps
- hot water
- 200 g sugar
- 85 g olive oil
- 280 g all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- pinch salt
- icing sugar
- 2 eggs
- 60 ml lemon juice

## Instructions

1. Boil the lemon scraps in hot water for 15 minutes.
2. Mix the boiled lemon scraps with sugar and olive oil.
3. Optionally, add 2 eggs or 1 egg and 60ml lemon juice at this stage for chewy cookies or a stronger lemon taste.
4. Add flour, baking powder, and a pinch of salt.
5. Form a dough.
6. Form cookies from the dough.
7. Roll everything in icing sugar.
8. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes at 180C/360F, or until golden.

## Equipment

- oven

## Tips

- For a shortbread version, just mix boiled lemon with sugar, oil and flour.
- For chewy lemon cookies, add 2 eggs to the mixture.
- For a stronger lemon taste, replace one egg with 60ml lemon juice.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EARQyfYn6/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/de3b57a2-7917-46ca-afea-6cbfe33adc6c
- Extracted: 2026-05-22

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