Soft Lemon Blueberry Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Super soft cake-like blueberry cookies are perfect for snacking at any time of day. Delicate and sweet, with a bright lemon flavor, and topped with a luscious cream cheese frosting. You won't be able to stop at one. These are the perfect spring and summer time dessert!

How do we feel about super soft cookies? Like sink your teeth into it and they just melt right in your mouth? Kinda like Lemon Ricotta Cookies or Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Butter Icing?! I personally am here for it! There is something about a delicately soft cookie that you can't just eat one of them. You have to go back for AT LEAST one more - if not two or three..... 😉

These lemon blueberry cookies are the perfect sweet treat for the summer. Bursting with in-season ripe blueberries and topped with the most luscious cream cheese frosting. Honestly, anything smothered in cream cheese frosting (cough cough I am looking at you Old Fashioned Pumpkin Loaf) and I am totally weak for. My self-control just goes out the window. I can't stop it!

I know you will love these sweet blueberry cookies so let's get baking!

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Ingredients Needed

Lemon Blueberry Cookies

• Butter - make sure your butter is at room temperature before starting this recipe. Set it out on the counter about 30 minutes before making it. This will help it incorporate better into the sugar and batter.
• Sugar
• Sour Cream - use full-fat sour cream for this recipe
• Eggs
• Vanilla - I always Always ALWAYS use vanilla bean paste* for all my baking recipes. It yields a much better and richer vanilla flavor (plus I can't get over those vanilla bean specks!). However, you can use the same about of vanilla extract and it will work just fine.
• Lemon - we will use the zest AND juice of 1 lemon for these cookies for maximum lemon flavor. You will need a good lemon zester* for this recipe.
• Flour - King Arthur flour is my preferred brand of flour to bake with.
• Baking Powder - make sure yours is fresh within the past 6 months! I always write the date on my container when I purchase, so I know when to toss it and but a new one (even if it isn't;t used all the way up).
• Salt
• Fresh Blueberries - rinse and fully dry before adding to the batter. We do not want any extra liquid in the dough.

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Cream Cheese Frosting

• Cream Cheese - full-fat cream cheese is best for this recipe. And make sure it is at room temp before using. The butter will need to be as well. This will help both mix well together without any lumps and clumps.
• Butter - make sure it is at room temp.
• Powdered Sugar
• Vanilla - I use the vanilla bean paste* here too, but vanilla extract will also work
• Salt
• Lemon

How to Make

Start with the cookies:

1. Preheat the oven. To 350 degrees.
2. Mix the butter and sugar. In a stand mixer, mix the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy (for 3-4 minutes)
3. Add in the liquid ingredients. Add in sour cream, eggs, vanilla, lemon juice, and zest. Mix until just combined (about 30 seconds).
4. Add in the dry ingredients. Add in the flour, baking powder, and salt and mix until combined. The dough will be quite sticky.
5. Fold in the blueberries. Remove the bowl from the mixer and add in the fresh blueberries. Gently fold in with a spatial until evenly distributed throughout the batter.
6. Bake. Scoop out onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper using a cookie scoop. Bake for 14-15 minutes.
7. Cool. Once finished, remove from oven and let cool on the sheet for 5 minutes, then move to a cooling rack to finish cooling.

Then make the cream cheese frosting while baking:

1. Cream together butter and cream cheese. In a bowl add cream cheese and butter. Mix with a hand mixer until smooth and creamy and no lumps remain.
2. Add in the rest of the ingredients. Add in the powdered sugar, vanilla, salt, and lemon zest, and juice. Mix well until smooth.
3. Frost cookies. Spoon the over the slightly warm or cooled cookies and enjoy!

PRO TIP: I have frosted the cookies about 5 minutes after they have come out of the oven and are still warm. The warmth from the cookies makes the frosting slightly melt and kind of turn into a glaze and it is HEAVENLY! I have also waited until the cookies have cooled to frost. I will just scoop a little out with a spoon and place it on top and then spread it out slightly to the edges. Both are great options and either can be done!

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