Lemon Drop Cookies

Lemon Drop Cookies Recipe

Remember the baker’s themed Easter basket I put together along with a recipe for super quick and easy brownie parfait with M&M’s Easter candies?

Well, I had about a half a bag of leftover M&M’s® from that recipe and thought they would go great in a lemon drop cookie, too.

So naturally, I had to bake a batch of lemon springtime cookies for you and add the candies to the top!

As you know, I like to begin by measuring and gathering all of my ingredients. This way, I have everything all measured and I just need to add it into my recipe when it’s called for.

There’s no fumbling around with bags and containers in my kitchen!

So, here’s my ingredient set for these lemon cookies. We have butter, sugar, flour, salt, baking powder, vanilla extract, lemon extract, lemon juice, and M&M’s Easter candies.

Ingredients

Find the measurements at the bottom of the page.

• Butter
• Sugar
• Egg
• Flour
• Kosher salt
• Baking powder
• Vanilla extract
• Lemon extract
• Lemon juice fresh or bottled
• M&M’s candies

Directions

Mix The Ingredients

Get everything mixed up in our handy Kitchen Aid Mixer. Follow the instruction in the printable recipe below to mix things in the proper order.

Form The Cookies

Keep a small bowl of flour available to dust your hands as we form the cookies.

The dough may be a little sticky, so lightly flouring your hands goes a long way to help keep the dough from sticking to you.

Flour your hands and roll the cookies into 1.5″ balls.

Place them on a parchment-lined cookie sheet and then flatten them down with floured fingers.

Add 3 M&M’s to each cookie.

Bake In The Oven

Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the bottom edge of the cookies show a slight browning.

Allow To Cool

Cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes and then move them to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Enjoy or gift to your family and friends. Maybe even leave some out for the Easter bunny!

Now the only thing left to do is put them out and wait for the Easter bunny to hop along and eat them up!

I suppose you could pass the cookies around with your friends and family to enjoy it.

These cookies really do taste like spring.