It’s hard to believe that 4 ingredients and around 20 minutes will yield these soft, melt in your mouth, buttery lemon crinkle cookies.

Lemon crinkle cookies are the sunny sister to the Mint Middle Fudge Crinkles  I posted a few weeks ago.  Bright lemony flavor shines in these soft and chewy cookies. Cheerful yellow cookie peeks out of the powdered sugar covered cracks along the outside, giving these cookies their characteristic crinkle appearance.

 These cookies make a great cake mix recipe to add to your arsenal. Arsenal? Yes! Easy cake mix recipes are the best weapon when you have unexpected guests show up or when the kids need some baked good, like right now, for some meeting they forgot to tell you about. My Cherry Almond Squares and Caramel Apple Dump Cake are some of my favorite cake mix go to’s when I remember about church potlucks at midnight on a Saturday. (You’ve been there, right?)

These sunny lemony sweet cookies are a treat to make, though it’s hard to eat just one.  And I guarantee you, people won’t believe it when you tell them that they just take 4 ingredients and start out with a cake mix.