I love lemon desserts–lemon pie, lemon cake, lemon curd tarts, lemon bars, and lemon crinkle cookies.  I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few, but I’ve remembered the purpose for today’s post.  Lemon crinkle cake mix cookies are very simple to make and are sure to become a favorite in your house like they are in mine.  To prepare these lemon crinkle cake mix cookies, all you need is a box of lemon cake mix, eggs, and some butter or margarine.  If you prefer, you can substitute an equal amount of your favorite, light flavored, oil for the butter.  We love making cookies from cake mix because there’s less measuring, and it’s quicker to get them into the oven.  This seems to be particularly important when I am baking with my children.  They can get to the fun part of cookie making–scooping and rolling faster.  They seem to prefer that part to the measuring.

These lemon crinkle cake mix cookies always seem to taste like spring or summer to me, so  I sometimes make these in the middle of summer when I usually avoid turning on the stove.  My secret to summer cookie baking is simple.  I get up very early in the morning, and bake the cookies before the heat of the day.  Two sheets of lemon crinkle cake mix cookies are out of the oven in under 30 minutes.  The house isn’t overheated, and we get to enjoy something sweet and delicious.

All you need to do is mix up the cookie dough, roll them into balls, roll the balls in powdered sugar, and arrange them on a baking sheet.  Pop the sheet into the oven, and voila, lemon crinkle cake mix cookies.  It’s so easy it’s almost like having a recipe for “instant” cookies.

Give our recipe for lemon crinkle cake mix cookies a try and let us know what you think by leaving a comment below.

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Nutrition information is for one cookie (1/30th of the recipe).