Limoncello cookies are airy and lightly sweet with a hint of lemony flavor. They are refreshingly different kind of cookie.
Limoncello is an Italian liqueur with a fresh and summery flavor. It lends an incredible flavor to these cookies and makes the lemony flavor sing.
To Make This Recipe You Will Need:
- all-purpose flour
- sea salt
- baking soda
- baking powder
- butter (unsalted)
- granulated sugar
- egg
- ricotta cheese
- vanilla extract
- limoncello liqueur
- lemon juice & zest
- powdered sugar
- baking sheet or stone
- parchment paper
- cooling rack
- mixing bowls
- mixer
- whisk
- pastry brush
To begin, preheat your oven to 350°(F).
In a bowl, combine all-purpose flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Stir those together and then set it aside for now.
In your mixing bowl, beat together granulated sugar and unsalted, room temperature butter until they are nice and fluffy.
Add in egg and ricotta cheese, beating until fluffy again.
Add in the vanilla, limoncello, and lemon juice and mix until combined.
Add in your dry ingredients and mix until just combined and smooth.
Scoop the dough onto a parchment paper lined cookies sheet or stone by tablespoons about 2 inches apart.
Bake these for 9-11 minutes, or until just slightly golden on the edges.
Slide the parchment paper with the cookies onto a cooling rack and let them cool for 2 minutes before removing them from the paper to finish cooling on the rack.
Repeat this with all of the remaining cookie dough.
Once the cookies are all baked and cooled, whisk glaze ingredients together in a small bowl until smooth.
Brush the cookies with the glaze.
Look at these little clouds of lemony goodness right there.
Enjoy!
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Limoncello Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 c all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 c butter, unsalted, room temperature
- 1 c granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 c ricotta cheese
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 Tb limoncello liqueur
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
For the Glaze:
- 2 Tb limoncello liqueur
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2/3 c powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
Instructions
For the Cookies
- To begin, preheat your oven to 350°(F).
- In a bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Stir to combined. Set that aside for now.
- In your mixing bowl, beat together the sugar and butter until they are nice and fluffy.
- Add in the egg and ricotta cheese, beating until fluffy again.
- Add in the vanilla, limoncello, and lemon juice and mix until combined.
- Add in your dry ingredients and mix until just combined and smooth.
- Scoop the dough onto a parchment paper lined cookies sheet or stone by tablespoons about two inches apart.
- Bake these for 9-11 minutes, or until just slightly golden on the edges.
- Slide the parchment paper with the cookies onto a cooling rack and let them cool for 2 minutes before removing them from the paper to finish cooling.
- Repeat with the remaining cookie dough.
- Cool the cookies fully before making the glaze.
For the Glaze
- Place the used parchment paper under the cooling rack with the cookies, to catch the drips and make clean-up easier.
- Combine all of the glaze ingredients in a small mixing bowl and whisk them all together until smooth.
- Brush the cookies with the glaze.
- Allow the glaze to dry and set-up before storing cookies in an airtight container.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
If nutritional values are provided for this recipe, they are an estimate and will vary depending on the brands of ingredients you use. The values do not include optional ingredients or when ingredients are added to taste or for serving. If nutritional values are very important to you, I suggest using your favorite nutritional calculating tool with the brands you use.
This recipe was originally written and published in 2016, updated in 2024.
Where have the cookies been my entire life?
Yowza!
YES! Thank you so much for this recipe.
I had leftover limoncello that I had gotten when I went to Italy and I particularly don’t like to drink it alone and I found this amazing recipe! It is so amazing and light and love the lemony flavor! So delicious!!
I’ll bake and take. The hubs isn’t fond of lemon stuffs, but I can’t get enough of it! These are going in the oven soon.
We love lemoncello, a fast dessert for company to go along with these yummy cookies. Lemon curd, add some lemoncello to it to thin out a little, pour over vanilla ice cream and place one of your cookies along side it.
I love the simplicity of this dessert!
I know what I’m making soon!
I love lemon anything – I even make my own limoncello! I will definitely try this recipe very soon.
I am in love with these lemon cookies–and Love that the glaze means kids can’t touch (more for me!)
These are wonderful!
I love about anything lemon and I love that you found a way to add lemoncello to these cookies!
Yum, these are some awesome cookies!
These are heavenly! I love that you put ricotta in the cookie dough!! And that glaze!!! Yum!
Love these little cookies. Reminds me of travelling Italy! X
A double dose of limoncello! Fabulous cookies!
Delicious, especially with that glaze!