Pink Lemonade Cookies

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These cut-out cookies are tangy and tart. This output is based connected a 2 1/2-inch cooky cutter.

It's a bully thought to usage nutrient coloring here, preferably gel coloring. Without it, the pinkish lemonade ore volition fade/yellow arsenic the different ingredients are added to the dough and arsenic the cookies bake.

The dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 1 hr and up to overnight. The cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 10 days.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 24-28

3 cups flour, preferably unbleached all-purpose, positive much for the enactment surface
2 teaspoons baking powder
16 tablespoons (2 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, chopped into chunks
1/2 cupful granulated sugar
1/2 cupful defrosted pinkish lemonade concentrate
1 ample egg
Pink nutrient coloring gel oregon McCormick's Neon Pink liquid nutrient coloring (see headnote)
Light brownish sugar, for sprinkling (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (based connected 28)

Calories
160
Fat
8 g
Saturated Fat
5 g
Carbohydrates
19 g
Sodium
45 mg
Cholesterol
30 mg
Protein
2 g
Sugar
7 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Decorating Cookies Party," by Bridget Edwards (Lark, 2014).

Tested by Rebecca Sullivan and Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published December 2, 2014

Updated March 15, 2026