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Lemon Cake Mix Cookies

Lemon Cake Mix Cookies are made with just six ingredients and are made in just one bowl. No mixer required!

Who would have thought you could make a lemon cookie recipe with cake mix?

Lemon Cake Mix Cookies have just SIX ingredients and have a bright lemon flavor!

Why You’ll Love These Lemon Cake Mix Cookies

Lemony Deliciousness – These lemon cookies are soft cookies with lots of bright lemon flavor. If you’re a lemon lover, these cookies are made for you. Whenever I have the choice, I’ll always go for a lemon dessert. I inherited that love from my mom, who adores all things lemon.

Easy to Make – Starting with box cake and adding just 5 other ingredients has these cookies ready in just 15 minutes.

Perfect for the Holidays – Lemon Cake Mix Cookies are great for Easter or Christmas cookie trays since you can make them so quickly yet they’re still homemade. It’s fun to have a few flavors to choose from and you can make a cookie tray easily with these easy cake mix cookies.

Best Lemon Cake Mix Cookies Recipe

Lemon Cake Mix Cookies Ingredients

  • Boxed Lemon Cake Mix: Use your favorite lemon cake mix such as Pillsbury, Betty Crocker or Duncan Hines.
  • Vegetable Oil: The key to moist cookies in this recipe.
  • Lemon Juice & Zest: Use fresh lemon juice and zest for the best results.
  • Eggs: The binder that keeps all the ingredients together. Use room temperature eggs for the best results.
  • Powdered Sugar: The white dust on top for added flavor and presentation.

How to Make Lemon Cake Mix Cookies

It’s surprisingly simple to make cookies from box cake. Unfortunately, you can’t simply mix up the cake mix and bake it as cookies, or the flavor will be just like a cake (not that that’s a bad thing)! This recipe for lemon cake mix cookies adds both the juice and zest of a lemon for a fresh, sweet lemon flavor. And with just six ingredients total, it really is almost as simple as mixing up the box of cake mix

Easy Lemon Drop Cookies from Cake Mix

Tips and Variations

Leave room – Leave enough room for the cookie dough balls to spread out as they bake. You can also chill the dough for 30 minutes if you prefer to lessen spreading.

Similar Sizes – Drop similar sized cookie dough balls to ensure even baking.

Cool – Allow them to cool so they maintain their shape.

Mix up the flavor – Add a flavor twist by adding rainbow sprinkles, Funfetti or even white chocolate chips to the batter.

What’s in name? – You can call these cookies lemon cake mix cookies or lemon drop cookies with cake mix. Drop cookies simply refer to cookies that only require scooping or rolling into balls and “dropping” onto a baking sheet.

Batch of Lemon Cake Mix Cookies

How Many Cookies Does This Lemon Cake Mix Cookies Recipe Make?

That will largely depend on the size you choose to make them. I typically get approximately 24 cookies out of one batch. Feel free to make them bigger or smaller depending on how many you’d like. Just keep an eye on the baking time as that will need to be adjusted slightly.

Lemon Cake Mix Cookies have just SIX ingredients and have a bright lemon flavor!

Lemon Cake Mix Cookies

Yield: 12 (2 cookies per serving)
Prep Time: 7 minutes
Cook Time: 8 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

Just six ingredients go into these simple, brightly-flavored cookies.

Ingredients

  • 2 eggs
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • juice of 1/2 lemon, about 2 tablespoons
  • zest of one lemon
  • 1 box lemon cake mix (about 15 oz)
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. In a mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, oil, lemon juice and zest. Fold in cake mix until just mixed and no large lumps remain.
  3. Drop dough onto ungreased cookie sheet about the size of a heaping teaspoon. Dust with powdered sugar.
  4. Bake for approximately 8 minutes or until the bottoms are just starting to brown and cookies are just set (do not overbake). Cool on wire racks and dust with more powdered sugar.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 260Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 31mgSodium: 342mgCarbohydrates: 44gFiber: 1gSugar: 26gProtein: 3g

This data was provided and calculated by Nutritionix.

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Carolyn

Friday 7th of September 2018

I love soft lemon cookies like this!

Jennifer Blake

Friday 31st of August 2018

We love the soft chewiness of a cake cookie in our house. The lemon flavor makes them the perfect refreshing yet sweet treat we crave after dinner.

Katie

Thursday 30th of August 2018

So simple and tasty!

Barbara Resch

Thursday 30th of August 2018

How many cookies does this make, I need to make 600.

Kristy

Thursday 30th of August 2018

Hi Barbara! Wow, that's a LOT of cookies! I updated the post because of your question so others don't have to ask. The answer is approximately 24 cookies, but that's based on the size you choose to make them. Hope that helps! - Kristy

Sabrina B

Saturday 19th of November 2016

I love that these have both lemon juice and zest, a nice flavor contrast to purely sweet cookie recipes, thank you for sharing this!

Kristy Bernardo

Wednesday 23rd of November 2016

Thank you, Sabrina!

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