Luscious Lemon Cookies - (Cake Mix)

Submitted by pixiesmom

"After searching this entire site for a lemon cookie recipe - I combined a couple recipes and came up with these. My family says they are more addictive than my lemon bars... so that is saying something!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 4 dozen
• Serves: 48

ingredients

• 510.29 g box lemon cake mix
• 118.29 ml butter or 118.29 ml margarine, softened
• 2 eggs
• 1 lemon, zest of
• 1 lemon, juice of
• sugar, to roll in
• 236.59 ml powdered sugar
• lemon juice

directions

1. combine softened butter with cake mix, eggs, lemon juice and zest - dough will be sticky - chill at least 1 hour.
2. Preheat oven to 350 - roll dough by teaspoon full into small balls - roll in sugar - place on ungreased cookie sheet - flatten slightly with a small glass.
3. Bake approximately 5 minutes - remove to cooling racks.
4. Prepare glaze with powdered sugar and enough lemon juice to make it glaze consistency - drizzle over cookies - the glaze will harden when cooled.