meyer lemon cloud cookies
My affinity for anything Meyer lemon runs deep (previously: Meyer lemon-brown butter bars, Meyer lemon pound cake, Meyer lemon madeleines). In addition to my own tree, I was gifted a bag filled with the fragrant beauties. Cookies were in order, but not just any cookie – cloud cookies.
The light and lemony pillows practically melt in your mouth and remain tender for days. Dusted with powdered sugar, these cookies are certain to infuse a little sunshine into even the dreariest winter afternoon.
Meyer Lemon Cloud Cookies
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp cornstarch
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tbsp Meyer lemon zest
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 Tbsp Meyer lemon juice
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg
Powdered sugar, for dusting
Whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl. Place Meyer lemon zest and white sugar in a food processor and pulse for 1 minute. Beat lemon-sugar, brown sugar, and butter in a large mixer bowl at medium speed until creamy. Add Meyer lemon juice, vanilla and egg; beat until combined. Reduce speed to low and gradually add flour mixture; beat just until incorporated. Transfer dough to an airtight container and refrigerate for at least 3 hours, or overnight.
Preheat oven to 350°F and line two baking sheets with silicone mats or parchment paper. Form 1 1/4″ balls of dough and place two inches apart on prepared baking sheets; flatten mounds slightly. Bake, rotating pans halfway through, for 10 minutes, until golden. Cool for 2 minutes on baking sheets, then transfer cookies to a wire rack and dust with powdered sugar while still warm. Store in an airtight container at room temperature up to 3 days.
Yield – 20 cookies
Calories – 110 (per cookie)
Carbs – 15
43 comments
So lovely, Laura and I share your love of all things lemon. Must find some more Meyer lemons.
Once again we are in sync Laura! I just finished making something lemon flavoured too 🙂 I wish Meyer lemons were easier to find as I love the balance of tartness and sweet.
These sound wonderful! I was just given a bag of limes, and might have to sub those out!
Yes, please!! 😀
I’m such a sucker for Meyer lemons! I’ll have to stock up on them so I can make this stat!
Just when I thought I couldn’t even look at another cookie post-holidays, I find myself drooling over these. Lemon desserts are my fave. 🙂
Beautiful! I can almost taste them!
I have to get my hands on some meyer lemons. I have never actually used one and am very excited to this year! These look so good!
Dreamy! Just dreamy, Laura! I’m so jealous you have your own Meyer lemon tree. (Gah! Oh, what I would give for one of those. I’ll just have to be grateful for my access to fresh tart cherries in the summer.) Cannot wait to make these, girl! Your creativity never ceases to amaze me. Thanks for sharing. Love, love!
You are such a lemon lover and these are just so you! They’re light and perfect and such a signature Laura recipe! pinned
Remember when we were kids in school and we held up our hand for the teacher so long that we braced our arm with the other one behind our head? That’s what I’m doing for one of these little puffy cloud cookies.
What gorgeous cookies Laura. They do look like gorgeous little clouds.
I want to live inside these cookies. They are just so heavenly.
Lemon desserts are my favorite! I just received a huge bag of key limes. I wonder if I how key lime cloud cookies would taste?!
Lemon sweets are my favorite! I’m charmed by the Lemon Cloud Cookies, they are lovely Laura! I never tire of my #CitrusLove!
I’m so excited that the Meyer Lemon season is here! These cookies look amazing Laura. What fun to have your own tree!
Lemon is my other obsession besides chocolate so I’m loving these little beauties. I’m at my parents house with the meyer lemon tree filled in the back yard but I forgot my camera :(. I have made lemon bars but plan on a pie. I also am sending a box of lemons to my home for when I get back.
So happy to have Myer lemon season again. This season so far I made Myer lemon curd and chiffon cake. I was about to search your recipe for more ideas too! Thanks for the recipe!
I’m saving this recipe away for my first lemons of the season. They look wonderful Laura!
I can’t get enough Meyer Lemons – I use them more in savory creations but I love coming here to see what scrumptious treats you’re making, Laura 🙂 These little cloud cookies are lovely. We planted a Meyer lemon tree and it’s starting to produce – they’re tiny, but I’m hoping they get bigger each year.
What a wonderful recipe, Laura… I adore Meyer lemons… so exquisite. Saving this recipe right now!
Laura, these photos are incredible!! And your cookies sound delish!!!
there is just something about standing in a kitchen and making cookies during a winter storm, and the fact that they’re like little bites of sunshine makes it all the better.
These make me yearn for summer and it’ll be here soon! Can’t wait 🙂
I wish I could smell these lemon cookies through my computer. They look so soft and tender.
they look so light and refreshing!
I am so salivating by looking at your cookies. They look divine. I would love to try them when I get Meyer lemons.
It looks so light indeed. Yummy yummy!
I love all the lemony goodness you have in your slider! Hooray for lemons. They make me so happy. 😀
And so do these cookies! Your pictures make them look so heavenly. 😉
Oh, I wish we had that lemon variety here in Brazil, I would love to taste it! The cookies look cute, Laura!
Definitely my kind of cookies! <3 These look so good!!!
I wish I could find more Meyer lemons here, they are pretty awesome!!! Your cloud cookies look melt in your mouth good! Gorgeous, Hugs, Terra
So jealous of the abundance of Meyer lemons you have! They aren’t in the stores here yet, and when they get here they will not be cheap!
I just made these as my Mom loves lemons. They are AMAZING! My word, and so easy! I also like the idea of making half the batch and freezing the other, so you can have fresh cookies whenever you want with half the work. So enjoy your website and wonderful recipes.
Thank you !! Have a FAB week!!
Hi Rosemary, thank you for your sweet comment. So glad you liked the cookies! 🙂
Delightfully citrusy! Those cookies are so pretty.
Cheers,
Rosa
WOW – do these look so divine! Anything with lemon is calling my name.
These are just darling!!! I am meyer lemon obsessed right now, too!
These sound so perfect for a chilly winter day, and your first photo is just stunning!
I love these pictures…and the cookies, of course!
Wow, these were great. My meyer lemon tree is exploding with fruit in my living room, and these cookies were the perfect thing!
Awesome ! Someone just gave me a bag of meyer lemons! Do you think these would freeze OK?
Hi Nicole, the cookies should freeze wonderfully! Or you can freeze the shaped dough and bake whenever a craving strikes! 🙂