12 Days of Christmas Cookies - Day #10 - Lemon Drops

Lemon Drops

We are in the home stretch of Christmas Cookies!  Today, I am sharing my recipe for Lemon Drop cookies!  These cookies have a light and refreshing lemon flavor, which can be a nice change of pace from all of the heavier, loaded candy cookies this time of year!  They are also a cake mix recipe!  Super easy to whip up!

Here's What You Need to Make the Lemon Drops:

• 1 box lemon cake mix
• 1 stick butter, softened
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 generous cup of white chocolate chips
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• juice from 1 lemon

Now Let's Make the Lemon drops:

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line your cookie sheets with parchment paper
2. In a stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, mix together the butter, eggs, and vanilla extract
3. Slowly beat in the lemon cake mix until a soft dough forms
4. Stir in the white chocolate chips
5. Using a cookie scoop or a rounded teaspoon, drop cookie dough onto prepared baking sheets (you will yield 2 1/2 dozen cookies)
   
6. Bake for 9-11 minutes, watching closely
7. Allow cookies to cool 2 minutes on baking sheets before transferring to wire rack to cool completely
   
8. In a small bowl, place cup of powdered sugar.  Stir in the lemon juice 1 teaspoon at a time until a medium icing consistency is reached 
9. Drizzle icing over cookies or place icing into a ziploc bag and snip off a corner in order to pipe lines onto cookies
10. Allow icing to harden and store in an airtight container

I used a ziploc bag to pipe the icing!  You can definitely eat them plain without it, but I think the simple icing of powdered sugar and lemon adds a bit extra flavor while making them look more impressive!