I remembered Mom’s recipe for a lemon sugar cookie, but couldn’t find it. I loved the crunch of the sugar on the outside, and the surprise of lemon flavor when you bit into the cookie.
I thought I lost the recipe forever! I have been trying to find something similar all over the internet. But nothing was quite like my mom’s. When I was going through my recipe file she made for me when I got married, I found it! She just called them sugar cookies! The recipe was right under my nose all along. I have played with the recipe a little bit for a bolder lemon flavor. I am so excited to share this not lost, but recently rediscovered cookie with you. Sugar Crusted Lemon Cookies are my updated version of this family favorite recipe.Normally I roll these in regular sugar, but for some extra crunch on the outside I tried rolling them in yellow decorator sugar crystals. The kind you get in the cake mix area. My hubby said they were so good, I should sell them!

Let me know which way you like them!

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Sugar Crusted Lemon Cookies

Author Sherri @ MadeFromPinterest.net

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter softened
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon lemon extract
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon lemon zest
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoon cornstarch
• 3 cups of flour
• sugar to roll the dough in.

Instructions

• Preaheat oven to 400°.
• With stand or hand mixer, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Add lemon extract, vanilla, lemon juice and lemon zest until well combined. It will begin to smell heavenly!
• Mix together baking soda, cornstarch and flour.
• Slowly add to dough, until flour mixture is fully incorporated.
• Scoop with small cookie scoop or rounded teaspoon. Roll into balls and roll in sugar.
• Bake for 6-7 minutes at 400°.

Notes

Decorator crystals may be used to roll the cookies in for a more crunchy exterior.

Here are a few more summer favorites that have popular recently:

Low Carb Key Lime Bars

Lemon Blueberry Poundcake

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I have a cookie for you today that is, dare I say it, better than the original! And these Soft Lofthouse Style Sugar cookies are EASY!We are getting ready to move, so I have been packing, packing, and packing boxes. As we sorted through all our old paperwork to prepare for the move, I realized that in 2010 something happened to me. Up until 2010 all my files were organized, like OCD organized. And then sometime in 2010 they weren’t. Not just like some small lapses. Like crazy bad. Like papers were stuffed in ziplock bags and labeled with a sharpie what year the jumbled mess of papers belonged to. And then I found an entire Trader Joe’s bag full of three years worth of receipts. One of the papers I found was a print out to try Lofthouse Style Soft Sugar Cookies from Two Peas & Their Pod.

My husband and I puzzled for weeks trying to figure out what the was catalyst that brought my household organization to its knees. Did I get depressed? Sick? And finally we figured it out. One receipt solved the mystery. We bought a boat in May of 2010, and have been spending every chance we get going to the lake. So my bills are not sorted and chronological. My kids are going to remember the days at the lake.

So in the middle of  all the chaos of moving, I made one last batch of cookies before I close the kitchen! We are definitely going to remember the stress of this move. But a heavenly bite of Soft Lofthouse Style Sugar Cookies will soften the memory of being surrounded by boxes, Sharpie markers, and packing tape. You can make yours any color. I saw some purple, green and yellow ones at the grocery store today. They were for Mardi Gras. I was thinking of St. Patrick’s Day. My father-in-law’s birthday is on that day. I think I will make him a batch. Because…
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Soft Lofthouse Style Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

Cookies

• 6 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 1½ cups sour cream

Frosting

• 1 cup butter room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 6 tablespoons heavy cream
• sprinkles

Instructions

Cookies

• Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl; set aside.
• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until well incorporated. Add vanilla almond extract and sour cream.
• Add the dry ingredients and mix until well combined.
• Dough is soft and sticky. Don't worry. After it is chilled, it will be easy to roll out.
• Divid dough into two sections. Press to 1 1/2 inch thickness and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate a minimum of two hours or overnight. The longer the better.
• Preheat oven to 425. Line baking sheets with parchment paper of Silpats.
• Lightly flour the dough and roll out to 1/4 inch thickness.
• Cut with cookie cutters and place on baking sheet.
• Bake about 7 minutes, or until puffy. To keep cookies soft, do not over bake.

Frosting

• Cream butter, vanilla, and almond extract.Slowly beat in powdered sugar, alternating with heavy cream. Add food coloring if desired.
• Once cookies are cooled, frost and add sprinkles. Allow frosting to set and store in an airtight container.

We can’t get enough of cookies! Here are a few more of our fav’s!

White Chocolate Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

Baklava Cookies

Cherry Bars

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They will scream, they will howl, they will haunt you for more of Twisted Halloween Sugar Cookies. And with looks like these, they will be the first to get devoured! Making these cookies is like playing with edible play dough. Edible play dough that tastes good. Edible play dough that tastes so good, you might not end up with any cookies because you ate all the dough. But if you do manage to hold out for the cookies, you won’t be sorry. This recipe for sugar cookies is so good it  made my son’s fourth grade teacher sick.

For reals, like she called in sick the day after my son brought them to school. She asked me to make cookies with her cookie cutter that was the shape of our state when they were doing their unit on our state history and having a special state history day. I asked my son after school if everyone liked them. He said they didn’t get any. That was confusing! When I asked why, he told me the teacher kept them at her desk and ate them all! She was diabetic!!!!! I was so glad when she came back to school later in the week, because we was afraid these might really be killer cookies!

But before I give you all the details on the cookies  I want to tell you about a little “party” we are surprising you with! Put on your comfy slippers, grab and drink and settle in, ’cause this collection of great Halloween ideas is going suck you in like a Vampire! That was lame,  it was cheesy, but these ideas aren’t. So stick around and check them out. Make sure to scroll down to the bottom of the post to see all the great ideas!

My favorite thing about the recipe I use is the texture of the cookies. Oh, wait, no. My favorite thing about this cookie recipe is that it has almond extract. I love the flavor. Well, no. Really it is the way they keep their shape and don’t spread out into some sort of tie dye cookie. I love how the coil and colors stay distinct. So there are three reasons to love this recipe! I used our favorite recipe for Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies. You can use any recipe you want, but this is my all time favorite!

You will see this idea from Make, Bake and Celebrate is so much easier to do than it looks and all you have to do is change the colors, and presto! You are set for any holiday!

Start by dividing your dough into four equal portions and adding gel food coloring. Gel food coloring results in stronger, brighter colors. I divided my dough into four balls, made a well in the center, added the coloring and then folded the coloring in, kneading until I had consistent color. Make sure to line your counter with wax or parchment paper when doing this to be sure not to get food coloring on your cutting board or counter. You can also do the coloring in your stand mixer.

If you are patient, you can put your four balls of dough wrapped in plastic wrap in the refrigerator for an hour. If you are me not patient, put it in the freezer so the dough will stiffen up a little more and it will be easier to handle.

Once your dough is firm, start rolling the dough into balls. I liked mine about the size of a walnut. It’s not real scientifical, so just play with it and see what works for you.

Now combine your four colors of dough and roll it into a ball. I found that all that rolling in my warm hands got my dough loose again, so I popped it back into the freezer to get it firm enough to roll out into a rope.

To avoid sticking and having the colors run together, I found it helped to have a little pile of flour next to my working surface. I dipped my fingers in whenever he dough got sticky and rolled the multi color balls into a uniform rope. You may notice that the rope in my photo is kind of lumpy and misshapen. That was one of my first, and I share it with you so you won’t feel bad if your first attempts are similar. Or because I didn’t get a good photo of a better one. Once you make the rope, hold one end in place and roll the other to get the twisted look.

Then coil your rope working from the center out.Roll the cookie in sprinkles and bake according to the recipe. Store in an airtight container and enjoy!
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Here is the hostess herself, Toni from Design Dazzle to explain how to get this party hoppin’!

Halloween is absolutely one of my FAVORITE holidays and to celebrate I pulled together the creative minds of some of my talented blogging friends to bring you over 110 fabulous Halloween ideas! From costumes to parties, crafts and home decor, recipes and free printables, we have so many fun ideas to share! I guarantee you’ll find a project (or 10!) that you would love to incorporate into your Halloween festivities. All week (Monday through Saturday) myself and my blogging friends will be sharing our fun creations with all of you. Each day will include approximately 20 Halloween projects and you can “hop” from one blog to another to check them all out.

1. Football Field {Dollar Store} Costume
2. Glowing Boo Pumpkins {Dollar Tree Makeover}
3. Frankenstein Treat Boxes
4. Halloween Notepads
5. Glamorous Feather Halloween Wreath
6. DIY Baby Carrot Costume
7. Pumpkin Macaroons
8. Washi Tape Pumpkin
9. Twisted Halloween Sugar Cookies
10. Halloween Trick or Treat Tree
11. Halloween Drink Label Printables
12. An Old-Fashioned Family Halloween Party
13. Punkin Heads
14. Pottery Barn Knock Off Trick or Treat Banner
15. Embroidery Hoop Spider Webs
16. Jack o’Lantern Drinking Glasses
17. Witches Spell Halloween treat & printable
18. Steam Punkin Party Favor
19. Host A Pumpkin Picking Picnic
20. Spiderweb No Bake Cheesecake

Follow our Fabulous Halloween Ideas Pinterest board for even more inspiration!

Follow Design Dazzle’s board Fabulous Halloween Ideas on Pinterest.

Check out all the other ideas from the rest of the week at Design Dazzle.

Thanks to all 110+ fabulous bloggers participating! We’d love for you to visit their blogs and see what else they’re up to!

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These snowmen and snowgals are a breeze to make. I wanted a chocolate cookie for the bottom and decided to try this Chocolate Sugar Cookie recipe from Jo Cooks. We loved them. These became a perfect base to show off the snowmen. I will definitely be making them again, next time topped with white chocolate and peppermint.
To make the snowmen, I cut marshmallows in half with kitchen shears. Then I made a puddle of melted vanilla flavored candy coating (sometimes called almond bark) on top of the cookie. Next, I dipped the cut marshmallow into the white chocolate and set it on top the puddle on top of the cookies (sounds like a song about a hole at the bottom of the sea, huh?). While the chocolate is still melted, add sprinkles for eyes and nose. After the candy hardened, I added arms, bows and bow ties with gel icing for a quick and easy finish. 

We just got our first snow of the season today, but it is more like ice. So these melting snowman cookies will just have to do until some decent snow comes along for snowman making!

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Melting Snowman Cookies

Author Made From Pinterest

Ingredients

• 3 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
• colored sprinkles
• black and red icing gel or decorator icing from the baking aisle works great
• 1 lb vanilla flavored candy coating sometimes called almond bark

Instructions

• In a small bowl combine flour, salt and baking powder.
• Cream together butter and sugar. Then add eggs one at a time. Next add vanilla extract and unsweetened cocoa until well combined.
• Add flour mixture a little at a time, until all incorporated into batter.
• Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for one hour. Divide dough into four parts. Roll to 1/4 thick and cut with cookie cutter. Bake at 350° for 9-11 minutes. Cool completely.
• To make the snowmen: Cut marshmallows in half with kitchen shears. Then make a puddle of melted vanilla flavored candy coating (sometimes called almond bark) on top of the cookie. Next, dip the cut marshmallow into the white chocolate and set it on top of the cookie. While the chocolate is still melted, add sprinkles for eyes and nose. After the candy is hardened, add arms, bows and bow ties with gel or decorator icing for a quick and easy finish.

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