If you like lemon, you’re going to love these 5-ingredient cookies! Your favorite sugar cookies get transformed with poppy seed and lemon, and the sweet, citrusy glaze drizzled on top is impossible to resist.
Lemon-Poppy Seed Sugar Cookies
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 1 hr 10 min
- Ingredients 5
- Servings 36
Ingredients
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough
- 2 tablespoons grated lemon peel (from 2 lemons)
- 2 teaspoons poppy seed
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 to 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Line 2 large cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper. In large bowl, crumble cookie dough. Add lemon peel and poppy seed; mix well.
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Step2Shape dough into 1-inch balls; arrange 1 inch apart on cookie sheets. Bake 9 to 12 minutes or until edges are set and light golden brown. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; remove to cooling rack. Cool 10 minutes.
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Step3In medium bowl, mix powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon of the lemon juice, stirring well. Add additional lemon juice, 1 teaspoon at a time, mixing until drizzling consistency. Drizzle on top of cooled cookies; allow glaze to set 10 to 15 minutes.
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Nutrition
70
Calories
2 1/2g
Total Fat
0g
Protein
11g
Total Carbohydrate
8g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 70
- Calories from Fat
- 20
- Total Fat
- 2 1/2g
- 4%
- Saturated Fat
- 1g
- 4%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 40mg
- 2%
- Potassium
- 0mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 11g
- 4%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 8g
- Protein
- 0g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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