The fable about a princess whose only goal is to meet a prince who can bake a cookie as tiny and delicate as she is inspired the name of this recipe, which I read to my kid. This small lemon treat is delightful and won’t let you down. They can either be rolled in sugar before baking for a more subdued lemon flavor, or drizzled with a glaze composed of confectioners sugar and lemon juice.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 40 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 5 mins |
| Servings: | 48 |
| Yield: | 4 dozen |
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 1 lemon, zested
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl until thoroughly combined. In a mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until creamy, about 5 minutes, then beat in eggs, one at a time, incorporating each before adding the next. Beat in the lemon juice, lemon zest, and vanilla extract. Gently mix in the flour mixture until just incorporated. Chill the dough about 30 minutes.
- Scoop up about 1 1/2 teaspoon of dough per cookie, gently form into a ball, and place the balls onto baking sheets about 2 inches apart.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the cookies are set and just beginning to brown at the edges, about 8 minutes; cool on baking sheets for 1 minute before removing to finish cooling on racks.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 90 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 12 g |
| Cholesterol | 18 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 81 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Fat | 4 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
It was great and I had fun making it. My dad helped me make it. and we loved it. -Kyla A.
I used fresh lemons & zest. A small scoop was just right. Watch so they don’t get too brown. I drizzled glaze made with 1 cup powdered sugar, lemon zest and enough fresh lemon juice to get the right consistency. Delicious & pretty!
I put Swedish Fish in the dough right before putting in the oven, and they were super delicious! My dad just really likes Swedish Fish!
Good recipe. My only complaint is I don’t see the steps or ingredients for the glaze.
Followed the recipe. I think refrigerating the dough before forming the cookies is key. They are super delicious. I added green food coloring to make a variegated St. Patrick’s Day cookie.
They were good, but next time I will add lemon icing.
Good cookie but the finished product has no lemon flavor. The glaze helped a lot.
Wonderful texture. Love the lemon flavor. I sprinkled a 10x sugar after they cooled. I had lemon extract on hand, so I added 1 teas to a double batch just to add an extra punch of flavor. Will definitely make again.
Fell apart, not lemony enough. Don’t have a lot of taste. Better recipes out there.
delightfully lemony…made as directed; husband just wanted a lemon cookie. I did rename them “Prince’s” lemon cookies…he wouldn’t have eaten princess cookies LOL
5 stars because the cookies are excellent and I will definitely be making them again.
Tastes very good. It tastes like lemons, not too sweet or bitter, perfect for people who loves lemons.
it came out softer than I thought. but overall, it was good
really good cookie. had to grease my hands when scooping the dough out to roll into balls. 1st batch the cookies were too big so made the next batch with smaller scoops about 1/2 in balls
These cookies are so good I would give them to my cat Princess if she could have cookies.
I love these cookies! they are easy and fabulous. I used half butter and half canola oil to have less lactose. I dropped small spoonfuls, I’m too lazy to roll cookies! I fit 16 to a pan. When cool, I drizzled them with the juice and zest from one lemon mixed with powdered sugar. The last ones got a little stale by the end of the week, so next time I’ll freeze some.
Made mostly as directed. Added a tad more salt and half a teaspoon of lemon extract. Probably slightly more lemon juice than the recipe called for and made the glaze with powdered sugar, lemon juice, vanilla for the top. I don’t think they would be sweet enough or lemony enough without the glaze. But I thought the cookie texture was perfect and hubs agreed.
I really enjoyed this recipe. I had been looking for a lemon cookie recipe and stumbled apon this one. I read the comments about the lack of lemon flavor so I went ahead and doubled up on the lemon juice and zest and added some white chocolate chips for added sweetness vs a lemon glaze. do this and it taste just like the “lemon drops” from Panera they only sell during the summer.
Not what I expected, little disappointed they’re a soft cookie and without.glszr not very good. Removed from favorites.
LOVED these cookies! The lemon flavour was extraordinary. The only thing is I had to bake my cookies for wayyy longer.
Definitely takes longer than 8 minutes to get them to a solid consistency. But if you use two smaller meyer lemons {zest and juice} the flavor will definitely be there. Scooped them a little bit bigger and flattened them just a bit on the sheet. Baked for roughly 13 minutes or until they felt set. Yummy 😀