Lemon Burst Cookies

Our church is hosting for the Hypothermia Shelter this week and today is Family Circle's day to prepare and serve dinner for the shelter guests.  I volunteered to make dessert, so I made some cookies this morning.  They were so yummy that I thought I should share them online.  I found these cookies on Pinterest a few weeks ago and pinned it.  They are called Lemon Burst Cookies.  There are a few different recipes for them online.  One called for Cool Whip, oil, 1 egg and a box of Lemon cake mix.....hmmm, I didn't like the idea of Cool Whip.  In addition, several people said their cookies came out flat (probably because of only 1 egg).  I found another recipe that used 2 eggs, oil, lemon cake mix, and lemon juice/extract/zest. That's the recipe I decided to use.

Aren't they scrumptious looking?

They tasted as good as they look.   A soft, cakey, lemony cookie.  The recipe made 30 cookies....but a few mysteriously disappeared as they were cooling. Uh-oh.  So, I made a quick trip to Giant for another box of cake mix and made another batch. 

Here's the recipe:

Lemon Burst Cookies

1 box of lemon cake mix (18.25 oz)

2 eggs

1/3 cup vegetable oil

zest of one lemon

2 Tbls lemon juice

1/4 tsp lemon extract

1/3 cup powdered sugar

1.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or use a SilPat baking mat.

2.  Into a large mixing bowl, add all the ingredients except the powdered sugar.  Mix with a hand mixer until well blended.  Dough will be sticky.  I found that the dough became less sticky after a few minutes. 

3.  Put the powdered sugar into a small bowl.

4.  Use a small scoop to made a small ball of dough.  I used about 1 1/2 Tbls per cookie.  Roll into the powdered sugar.  Get a pretty heavy coating if you want that powdered sugar look on your finished cookie.  Place onto cookie sheet.

5.  Bake 9-10 mins until edges are just lightly browned.  Cool a couple mins on cookie sheet and transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

Makes between 30-36 cookies depending on size. 

I've already dropped the cookies off at church for tonight's dinner.....wish I would have kept a few....yum