04/17/2026
These Cottage Cheese Lemon Cookies taste like mini lemon pies 🍋👇
Soft, fluffy, and bursting with fresh lemon flavor… light, sweet, and impossible to stop at one 🤤
INGREDIENTS:
• 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ tsp baking powder
• 4 tbsp butter (softened)
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup cottage cheese (blended)
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 lemon
Optional glaze:
• ½ cup powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
INSTRUCTIONS:
Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Mix flour + baking powder.
In another bowl, beat butter + sugar until smooth. Add egg, then mix in cottage cheese, vanilla, lemon zest + juice.
Add dry ingredients → mix into a soft, sticky dough.
Scoop (about 2 tbsp each) onto baking sheet, spacing them out.
Bake 16–18 minutes until lightly golden on edges.
Let cool 20 minutes.
Mix glaze (powdered sugar + lemon juice) and drizzle on top.
Light, lemony, and melt-in-your-mouth soft 🍋
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