Description
Pink Lemonade Cookies are soft, chewy, and bursting with lemon flavor, topped with a smooth pink lemon frosting.
Ingredients
Scale
- ½ cup butter softened
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon lemon extract
- 1 ½ cups flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- Pink food coloring
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- Pink food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Cream butter and sugar for 2-3 minutes.
- Add egg, lemon extract, and pink food coloring. Mix until combined.
- Add flour and baking soda. Mix just until combined.
- Scoop dough, roll into balls, flatten into discs.
- Bake 9-12 minutes until edges are set. Cool completely.
- Beat frosting ingredients until smooth and fluffy.
- Add pink food coloring to frosting.
- Pipe frosting onto cooled cookies in a swirl pattern.
Notes
- Do not overbake to keep cookies soft.
- Cool completely before frosting.
- Use gel food coloring for deeper color.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 9 minutes
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 223
- Sugar: 25g
- Sodium: 82mg
- Fat: 10g
- Saturated Fat: 6g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3.4g
- Trans Fat: 0.4g
- Carbohydrates: 33g
- Fiber: 0.3g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 34mg