The best lemon snowball cookies

5 from 7 votes

These easy lemon snowball cookies are both delicious and so cute. Perfect for spring and summer baking to use up that extra lemon goodness.

Prep Time20

Cook Time20

Total Time40

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Calories: 166Calories

Preheat the oven to 325F then line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Cream the butter and powdered sugar in a large bowl. Add in the vanilla extract, lemon extract, lemon zest, and lemon juice, add in a tiny bit of yellow food coloring now if you are using it, and mix again. Add in the flour and salt and mix on low speed until dough forms.
1 cup butter, ⅔ cup Imperial Sugar powdered sugar, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon lemon extract, zest of 1 lemon, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 2 & ¼ cup all purpose flour, ½ teaspoon salt, yellow gel food coloring
Using a small cookie scoop, scoop out 20 cookie dough scoops and roll into balls and place them on the prepared baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes.
Roll the warm cookies in the powdered sugar, then place on a cooling rack and let them cool down. Once cooled down, roll them in the powdered sugar again to give them that flawless snowball look.
¾ cup Imperial Sugar powdered sugar