These raspberry cookies are bursting with sweet raspberries and fresh lemon flavor. They have a soft, buttery and chewy texture and the lemon glaze on top makes them irresistible!
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This Raspberry Cookie Recipe Tastes Like Summer
I love to make fruit desserts during spring and summer. These bright and refreshing raspberry cookies are a favorite, as well as glazed lemon cookies and strawberry cookies!
Sweet, tart raspberries are combined with the bright zing of lemon and a buttery cookie base that is similar to a shortbread cookie. Topped with a lemon powdered sugar glaze, these are the best cookies bursting with fresh flavor!
Ingredient Notes
Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.
- Baking staples: All-purpose flour, granulated sugar and baking powder.
- Cold salted butter: Similar to a scone, cold butter gives the cookies a soft texture.
- Heavy whipping cream: This gives the cookies a soft texture.
- Fresh lemon zest and lemon juice: For the best taste in these raspberry lemon cookies, use fresh lemon juice not bottled.
- Frozen raspberries: Frozen raspberries work better than fresh raspberries for this recipe, they are firmer and less watery, so your cookies will hold their shape. I have not tested these with freeze dried raspberries.
- Lemon glaze: Powdered sugar and lemon juice.
How to Make Raspberry Cookies
In a large bowl, whisk dry ingredients including the flour, sugar, and baking powder. Mix in butter with a pastry cutter, whisk, or your hands until crumbly and combined.
This is an eggless cookies, the cold butter and cream provide enough structure, similar to a scone.
Stir in heavy cream, lemon zest, and lemon juice until combined and a thick dough forms.
Roughly chop frozen raspberries then gently fold them into the batter.
Using a large cookie scoop, spoon dough 2 inches apart onto prepared cookie sheets.
Bake 12 to 15 minutes, or until lightly golden around the edges.
Once cookies have cooled completely, combine glaze ingredients in a small bowl and drizzle over the soft cookies.
“Just made these and they turned out beautifully. Light and fluffy cookie and the lemon glaze hit the spot. Will definitely do this one again.”
Tips for the Best Raspberry Lemon Cookies
- Cold butter. Similar to making homemade biscuits or scones, you want to use cold cubed butter. This gives the raspberry cookies a soft and thick texture, without being too soggy or flimsy.
- Drop cookies. Simply use a spoon (or cookie scoop) to drop the raspberry lemon cookies onto the baking sheet. That’s it! No rolling or flattening cookie dough balls.
- Fold raspberries gently. Try not to get heavy handed when folding in the frozen raspberries. Fold them in gently, so they stay intact for the most part.
- Add-ins. White chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips would taste delicious. Fold them in when you fold in the frozen raspberries.
- Without lemon: Skip adding the lemon juice and zest and use vanilla extract instead.
- Glaze. Make sure lemon raspberry cookies have cooled completely before adding the glaze. Try a cream cheese glaze or omit the glaze and dust with powdered sugar.
If you love dessert recipes with lemon try lemon brownies, lemon cake mix cookies or lemon poke cake!
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Ingredients
Cookies
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ cup salted butter , cubed
- ⅔ cup heavy whipping cream , plus more as needed
- ½ lemon , zested
- 1 Tablespoon lemon juice , freshly squeezed
- 1 cup roughly chopped frozen raspberries , do not thaw
Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 Tablespoons lemon juice
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Make dough. In a large bowl, whisk together 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup sugar, and 2 teaspoons baking powder. Mix 1/2 cup cold butter in with a pastry cutter, whisk, or use your hands until it's crumbly and combined.
- Add wet ingredients. Stir in 2/3 cup heavy cream, zest of 1/2 lemon, and 1 Tablespoon lemon juice just until combined and a thick dough forms. If the dough is too dry, add 1 more Tablespoon cream. Gently fold or press in raspberries.
- Drop cookies. Using a large cookie scoop, drop dough 2 inches apart onto the baking sheet.
- Bake 12 to 15 minutes, or until lightly golden around the edges. Let cool 5 minutes on the baking sheet before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely, about 25 minutes.
Glaze
- In a medium bowl, stir together 1 cup powdered sugar and 2 Tablespoons lemon juice until smooth.
- Drizzle over cooled cookies. Enjoy!
Last step: Please leave a comment and rating after you make the recipe.
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Nutrition
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Laura
Love these. I used fresh berries, just froze them & crumbled. Turned cookies a bit pink but came out great! Put berries on cookie sheet til froze then was easy to crumble! Thanks
Sarah @IHeartNaptime
So glad that worked for you! Thanks for the review of the raspberry cookies!
Anya P
Can this be done with fresh raspberries and how many? 1:1?
Will they end up soggy?
Sarah @IHeartNaptime
Hi Anya, as noted in the tips, frozen are best as fresh are too watery. Enjoy!
Ugh
There are no directions for the raspberries…
Sarah @IHeartNaptime
Hello, sorry to hear you are having trouble with the raspberries, if you scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of the post, you will see the directions include “1 cup roughly chopped frozen raspberries”. Enjoy!
Mick D Coleman
With no eggs for a binder these are a little too flimsy.
Dustin Atkins
Just made these and they turned out beautifully. Light and fluffy cookie and the lemon glaze hit the spot. Will definitely do this one again. Thanks
Sarah @IHeartNaptime
Perfect for summer!
Jessica
Can you use freeze-dried raspberries instead of frozen?
Sarah @IHeartNaptime
It has not been tested with freeze-tried and I would worry that the cookies may be a bit drier since you don’t have any of the raspberry juice from the fresh or frozen berries. If you try it, let us know how it goes! We also have this strawberry cookies recipe that uses freeze dried berries, so you may want to try that instead!
Natasha
Made this for dessert yesterday and these raspberry cookies are the best! So fruity, chewy and we all loved the cookies!
Kristyn
These are such pretty cookies!! I love the raspberry chunks and the lemon glaze goes so well with the raspberries! They are delicious!
Charlene
Even as a huge raspberry lover, I’d actually never had raspberry cookies before. But lemon was the perfect flavor pairing in these! Easy to make, yummy, and seriously gorgeous color.
I Heart Naptime Community
I’m so glad you loved the cookies Charlene!
Zaina Adnan
Love the taste but they turned out too soft and soggy. I baked them be in the oven for more than 15 minutes. Will bake these again and hopefully they’ll turn out alright.
Margaret
Would these work with the addition of 1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips?
I Heart Naptime Community
I haven’t tried semi-sweet chocolate chips, but let me know if you do :) White chocolate chips would taste delicious mixed into the dough. Fold them in when you fold in the frozen raspberries.
Judy D Frasch
absolutely delicious, i added extra lemon zest. It is my boss’ favorite, she asks for them whenever we have food. was really good with a drizzle of white chocolate on top instead on white chocolate chips in it.