3 Ingredient Lemon Cake Mix Cookies

These lemon cake mix cookies truly couldn’t be simpler. They’re delicious on their own as an easy treat, or they make the perfect base to decorate and share at a spring or summer get-together.

These super simple lemon cake mix cookies with only three ingredients are just waiting for you to add your creative touch. I love lemon-flavored anything, and so many flavors, like lavender, vanilla, lime, and strawberry, pair so well with lemon. Of course, you can make these simple cookies to have on hand as a little afternoon treat with lemonade or a cup of tea, but I really think the magic of this easy cookie recipe is the potential for decorating and creative serving options. These only take a few minutes to throw together, and then you can get inventive and decorate them to suit whatever occasion you need an easy dessert for, whether it’s a backyard barbecue, a children’s birthday party, or an elegant evening of drinks and appetizers, these cookies will fit right in with the right toppings.

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Ingredients Needed for the Lemon Cake Mix Cookies

You’ll need:

• A box of lemon cake mix
• Butter or a plant-based substitute, melted
• Eggs or a vegan egg substitute
• 3 Ingredient lemon glaze to drizzle over top – optional, but highly recommended!

While my cake mix pudding cookies are a beloved cookie recipe for many of my readers (and for me), this cake mix cookie variation is a simpler one, meant to be even quicker and easier. If you’d like to do a lemon variation of the pudding cookies using lemon pudding mix as well, you definitely could. Another option for ingredient additions to these cookies would be to boost the lemon flavor even further with a dash of lemon extract or a bit of grated lemon rind mixed into the cookie dough.

What I love about this recipe, though, is that there’s no need to mess with lemon juice or lemon zest if you’re in a hurry. They’re perfectly lemony, just as they are.

Method for Making the Lemon Cookies with Boxed Cake Mix

These lemon cookies are so simple to make that I don’t even bother bringing out the stand mixer. Simply combine all three ingredients in a large mixing bowl and whisk them together until everything is well-combined in a smooth, softened mixture. If you’d prefer to use an electric mixer, though, you most definitely can.

If you already have your oven pre-heated and you don’t want to waste any time before baking your cookies, you can go right ahead and scoop them out with a medium size cookie scoop onto a baking sheet lined with parchment or a silpat baking mat. If you bake the cookies right away, they will spread quite a bit, resulting a slightly wider cookie with a flatter surface. This can be perfect for decorating.

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If you’d rather have the cookies turn out to be a bit thicker, like the ones pictured in the photos in this post, chill the dough in the refrigerator for about 20 to 30 minutes while you preheat your oven before moving on to scooping and baking. Chilling the dough really makes quite a significant difference with this recipe, but the cookies are lovely either way, so the step to refrigerate the dough is not completely necessary.

When the baking time is up, remove the cookies and transfer them to a wire cooling rack using a spatula to allow them to cool completely. Once the cookies are cooled, they’re ready to be served as-is for a simple treat, or you can decorate them before sharing them with all your favorite friends and family.

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Ideas for Decorating Lemon Cookies

These yummy, buttery cookies can be whipped up so easily, and lend themselves to so many different options for toppings and mix-ins.

They make a beautiful frosted cookie when topped with lemon frosting or they can simply be dusted with a few tablespoons of powdered icing sugar for a simple presentation. If you’d like to try a different drizzle topping, an easy almond glaze would be a great option.

Alternately, you could mix in white chocolate chips or poppy seeds for a fun variation on lemon poppy-seed muffins.

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Here’s the full printable recipe.

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