Lemon Coconut Sugar Cookies
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Sweet and chewy, with bits of coconut and tangy lemon zest, these Lemon Coconut Cookies are quite possibly the most perfect spring or summer cookie recipe!
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Why I love this recipe
This cookie recipe? Is a ROCK. STAR. One bowl. No rolling out cookie dough. No cookie cutters. You don’t even have to chill the dough. Just stir, scoop and bake!
Tangy bits of lemon zest give a wonderful lemon flavor while sweet and chewy coconut gives a little tropical twist, all in the absolute perfect sugar cookie base. Ready to get baking?
Want more tasty lemon flavor? Serve with triple lemon poke cake, lemon cheesecake mousse, or yummy lemon bars!
Ingredients
There are two ingredients in this dough that I haven’t used in many cookie recipes: cream of tartar and powdered sugar.
The cream of tartar is a stabilizer and acts like a leavening agent. Powdered sugar adds some tenderness and since it has a little cornstarch added to it, it helps the lemon-coconut cookies from spreading too much.
- butter
- vegetable oil
- granulated white sugar
- powdered sugar
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- lemon extract
- baking soda
- cream of tartar
- all-purpose flour
- fresh lemon zest
- shredded sweetened coconut
Step by step
- Preheat the oven and line two baking sheets or a sheet pan with parchment paper.
- Cream together butter, oil, and both sugars in a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer.
- Add eggs to the butter mixture and mix well on medium speed.
- Add vanilla and lemon extract, followed by baking soda and cream of tartar.
- Add flour one cup at a time, mixing well between cups and scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Stir in the shredded coconut and lemon zest.
- Use a cookie scoop (mine holds about 2 tablespoons of dough) to portion out the cookies about 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets.
- Bake 10-12 minutes or until edges are just barely golden brown.
Tip: I used a medium cookie scoop that holds about 2 tablespoons of dough. If you use a large cookie scoop for large cookies you may have to extend the baking time a minute or two. If you don’t have a cookie scoop, use two spoons to scoop the dough and slide it onto the cookie baking sheets.
Just look at these beauties … golden brown around the crisp edges, still light in color, coconut and lemon zest baked inside.
Like most sugar cookies, these Lemon Coconut Sugar Cookies are amazing eaten warm right from the oven, but even better if you let the flavors meld together for a day or so.
Just look at that soft, chewy center!
Storage
Allow the soft lemon cookies to cool completely on a wire rack and store in an airtight container at room temperature up to 5 days.
Freeze cookies for up to 3 months in a freezer bag. Thaw overnight at room temperature.
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PrintLemon Coconut Sugar Cookies
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 48 1x
Description
Sweet and chewy, with bits of coconut and tangy lemon zest, these Lemon Coconut Cookies are quite possibly the most perfect cookie for spring or year-round!
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- zest of 1/2 lemon
- 1 cup shredded sweetened coconut
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line baking sheets with parchment paper
- In a large bowl, cream together butter, oil and both sugars.
- Add the eggs and mix well.
- Mix in vanilla and lemon extracts.
- Add the baking soda and cream of tartar and mix.
- Add the flour one cup at a time, mixing between additions.
- Stir in coconut and lemon zest and mix until combined.
- Drop by spoonfuls (about 2 tablespoons) onto prepared pans – leave several inches between cookies.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are golden and the cookies are still fairly light in color.
- Store cooled cookies in an air tight container.
Notes
Store in an airtight container at room temperature up to 5 days.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: dessert
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 155
- Sugar: 7.5 g
- Sodium: 35.1 mg
- Fat: 9.4 g
- Carbohydrates: 16.6 g
- Fiber: 0.4 g
- Protein: 1.6 g
- Cholesterol: 17.9 mg
These looks so fresh and tasty, I love ANYTHING with lemon and/or coconut. Thanks for sharing this, I’ll be saving this for a lovely summertime treat. And yes I’m crazy, I bake in the summer 🙂 Found you at Nifty Thrifty Sunday!
I’m a dummy and thought these cookies had coconut sugar. So I started the recipe and discovered my mistake. I subbed coconut oil for vegetable oil, coconut sugar for granulated, white chocolate chips for coconut, and didn’t use cream of tarter. They turned out delightful. Thanks for the recipe. It was a happy mistake. ???? I will come back and try again with the original ingredients!