Lemon Pomegranate Cookies are a delightful lemon cookies recipe. This Christmas cookie recipe is sinful with the white chocolate drizzle. One bite of these lemon cookies and you will be in love!
Christmas Cookie Recipe
I love a good Christmas cookie recipe! I look forward to every year making cookie recipes and making up my Christmas cookie trays. Every year I try to add one special Christmas cookie recipe to those trays.
Drop Cookie Recipe
One of the easiest cookies to make is a drop cookie recipe. For this lemon cookie recipe, I wanted to make these lemon cookies as easy as possible. So a lemon cookie recipe as a drop cookie recipe is the best way to make a Christmas cookie recipe.
Pomegranate and Lemon
My brain goes into overdrive when I think up new and exciting recipes. This Lemon Pomegranate Cookie took many forms before it became pomegranate and lemon. The truth is these lemon cookies became a pomegranate recipe because I had bought Pomegranate seeds to use in the cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving, I needed to use them up!
Pomegranate Recipe
Cranberry sauce inspired a Christmas cookie recipe? Yes! My mom wanted me to do something different with cranberry sauce, so I thought Pomegranate seeds. Well, in a conversation with her, I found out she doesn’t like Pomegranate. Ok then, so what to do with the seeds? That is how lemon cookies became a pomegranate recipe!
Lemon Cookie Recipe
I decided to google Pomegranate cookies. I saw many pomegranate recipes but nothing was jumping out at me. Then I saw an ad for lemon cookies. The light bulb went off in my head. Why not do a lemon cookie drop cookie recipe. Lemon along with the pomegranate go well together.
Cooking Tip:
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hen baking cookies, be sure your dough is thoroughly chilled when it goes on your baking pan. This will allow the leavening ingredients to work before the butter flattens out and your cookies lose their textural distinctions. – Source: Epicurious
White Chocolate Drizzle
What would make this lemon cookie recipe tie together? White chocolate! I was torn between just adding the chips or do a white chocolate drizzle. The white chocolate drizzle won out because, well it looks prettier on these Lemon Pomegranate Cookies!
Lemon Pomegranate Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter (soften)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 whole lemon (zested and juiced)
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 cup pomegranate seeds
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheet with parchment
- In large bowl, whip butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in egg, lemon juice, lemon zest, and vanilla.
- Scrape sides and mix again.
- Add the flour, baking powder, and baking soda and stir until completely combined
- Stir pomegranate seeds in by hand gently
- Scoop rounded tablespoon fulls onto prepared baking sheet and bake about 8 minutes or until edges look barely golden.
- In a small bowl, melt white chocolate and drizzle over cookies.
- Let the chocolate harden then serve them up and ENJOY!
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
36Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 95 Total Fat: 4g Saturated Fat: 3g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 1g Cholesterol: 13mg Sodium: 39mg Carbohydrates: 13g Fiber: 0g Sugar: 9g Protein: 1g
Olivia
April 2, 2018These cookies look amazing! I can’t wait to make them!