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Lemon Snowflake Cookies Recipe

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Lemon Snowflake Cookies are a lemon crinkle cookie that are only made with 4 ingredients. Lemon cake mix, cool whip and egg are whipped together and then rolled in powdered sugar. These soft cookies with lemon flavor are so good!

These snowflake cookies are also known as crinkle cookies because of how they “crack” when baked. It makes a really cool design that is unique to crinkle cookies. They are also called Lemon Whippersnappers. So cute!

This cookie recipe is messy but so worth it! Even though it is messy, baking cookies is so easy. This is one of my favorite lemon Christmas cookies recipes.

Lemon snowflake cookies only need 4 ingredients!

  • Lemon cake mix with pudding
  • Whipped topping: I have found that other brands of whipped topping are thinner and more watery. I stick with regular Cool Whip. You can find it in the freezer section of the grocery store.
  • Egg
  • Confectioners sugar (aka powdered sugar)
Lemon Snowflakes Ingredients

How to Make Lemon Snowflakes

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a mixing bowl, combine cake mix, Cool Whip, and egg. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Batter will be very sticky.
  3. Fill a cookie scoop half full with batter and drop into confectioners sugar and roll lightly to coat.
  4. Place on ungreased cookie sheets. I like to line my cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  5. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges. Watch them closely as this can vary by oven and altitude.
  6. Let them cool on the baking sheets to harden a bit before moving them to a cooling rack.

Tips for Crinkle Cookies

  • It is very important to make sure the lemon cake mix you buy has pudding in it. Pillsbury, Duncan Hines and Betty Crocker all make a lemon cake mix with pudding in it. It usually has the word “Moist” in the title of the product. It will say “with pudding” on the box. If you can’t find it in your stores, you can buy it online here (affiliate link).
  • If you measure out a teaspoon for small cookies, it yields about 5 dozen. I like them larger and do 1/2 cookie scoop, and it yields about 30 cookies.
  • I prefer larger cookies, so I use a small cookie scoop and fill it 1/3 to 1/2 full with the dough, depending on how big I want the cookie, then drop it in the powdered sugar and roll into ball. This makes it easier since the dough is so sticky. If you don’t have a small ice cream scoop, then just lather your fingers with powdered sugar first.
  • Be sure not to overcook them. They should be a bit crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside after cooling. They will harden just a bit as they cool.

Mint Chocolate Crinkle Cookies – These delicious cookies are made with Devil’s Food Cake Mix and Andes Creme de Menthe baking chips. YUM!

Christmas Monster Cookies – This big cookies are so good and packed with oats, peanut butter, chocolate chips and M&Ms.

Chewy Chocolate Peppermint Cookies – These soft chocolate cookies are dipped in peppermint white chocolate. They are SO good!

Lemon Snowflake Cookies

Lemon Snowflake Cookies are a lemon crinkle cookie that are only made with 4 ingredients. Lemon cake mix, cool whip and egg are whipped together and then rolled in powdered sugar. These soft cookies are so good!
4.45 from 38 votes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Cookies
Cuisine American
Servings 30
Calories 94 kcal

Ingredients
  

Instructions
 

  • In a mixing bowl, combine cake mix, Cool Whip, and egg. Beat with mixer on medium speed until blended. Batter will be very sticky.
  • Fill a cookie scoop half full with batter and drop into confectioners sugar and roll lightly to coat.
  • Place on ungreased cookie sheets.
  • Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes or until lightly brown.

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Notes

I have found that other brands of whipped topping are thinner and more watery. I stick with regular Cool Whip. You can find it in the freezer section of the grocery store. It is also very important to make sure the lemon cake mix you buy has pudding in it. 

Nutrition

Serving: 1Calories: 94kcalCarbohydrates: 20gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.2gTrans Fat: 0.04gCholesterol: 6mgSodium: 132mgPotassium: 16mgFiber: 0.2gSugar: 13gVitamin A: 12IUCalcium: 41mgIron: 0.4mg

The nutrition information is calculated using online nutrition calculators and may not be accurate. It is provided as a general guide only.

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Recipe Rating




Casey

Friday 23rd of December 2022

These turned out great! I added lemon zest from a single lemon to add an extra lemony punch. I made them relatively small and it made roughly 64 cookies. Would make again!

Jean

Friday 16th of December 2022

I made these cookies out of chocolate cake mix 1st,then I tried them with lemon cake mix. It was hard to tell when the chocolate recipe was ready to come out of the oven. I had to guess. Chocolate was good but I really loved the lemon best and normally I would choose chocolate over lemon any day.

Emily Enchanted

Wednesday 17th of August 2022

I love this recipe because these cookies are doughy and lemony and so easy to eat a whole batch by yourself!

Don e

Saturday 20th of February 2021

Can I add lemon pudding to cake mix?

Emily Enchanted

Sunday 21st of February 2021

@Don e, that is an interesting idea. Only if it is in powder form. I have not tried it though.

Jenna

Wednesday 16th of December 2020

Did you use more than 1 8oz tub of cool whip? Or did you use the large tub? I ask because 1 cup is equal to 8 oz.

Emily Enchanted

Wednesday 16th of December 2020

@Jenna, that conversion is for fluids. 1 cup equals 8 fluid ounces. This is considered a solid. One 8 oz container of Cool Whip is about 3 cups.