Blueberry Cookies
This summer, you must bake a batch of Blueberry Cookies. Since there are blueberries in these cookies instead of chocolate chips, they’re a bit healthier, right??
These summer-themed cookies are a pretty, soft lemon cookie with fresh blueberries baked into them. A sweet lemon glaze is drizzled on top. They’re the perfect cookie to bake when you have a basket of smaller-sized blueberries hanging around.
Ingredients needed:
- white sugar
- butter
- egg
- lemon extract
- all purpose flour
- milk
- fresh blueberries
- powdered sugar
- freshly squeezed lemon juice
How to make Blueberry Cookies:
Look for the complete, printable recipe at the end of this post. Use an electric mixer to combine the sugar and butter. Then add an egg and some lemon extract. Mix in the flour, alternating with the milk. Then stir in the blueberries. Use fresh blueberries. And it’s best if they are on the smaller side. Scoop the batter onto a parchment-lined baking sheet using a cookie scoop, and bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
Let the cookies cool. Then it’s time to add the glaze.
Combine powdered sugar and enough lemon juice to create good drizzling consistency. Drizzle the glaze over the cooled cookies. Let the cookies stay put until the glazed has firmed up.
The cookies are a cakey kind of cookie and not hard, crunchy cookies. They almost taste like a puffed up blueberry pancake instead of a cookie. If you’re a blueberry lover, then you will love this cookie. And it’s likely your first time to try a fresh blueberry cookie, isn’t it? Lucky you. Be sure to try my 3-Ingredient Blueberry Cobbler recipe too. Enjoy!
*NOTE: This recipe was originally shared by RecipeBoy himself (Brooks) back in 2011. The post was updated with new photos and a new write-up in 2021.
Blueberry Cookies
Ingredients
COOKIES:
- 1 cup granulated white sugar
- ยฝ cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature
- 1 large egg, beaten
- ยฝ teaspoon lemon extract
- 2ยฝ cups all purpose flour (measure, then sift)
- ยฝ cup milk
- 1 cup fresh (smaller sized) blueberries (washed, dried and stems removed)
GLAZE:
- ยฝ cup powdered sugar (measure, then sift)
- 1 to 1ยฝ tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
Instructions
MAKE THE COOKIES:
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the sugar and butter. Beat in the egg and lemon extract.
- Gradually add flour, alternating with milk addition.
- Carefully stir in the blueberries and drop the batter 1ยฝ-inches apart on greased cookie sheet, silpat-mat or parchment lined baking sheet. I use a cookie dough scoop.
- Bake 10-12 minutes.
ADD THE GLAZE:
- Let the cookies cool completely. In a small bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar and lemon juice. Drizzle each cookie with a little bit of the lemon glaze. The glaze will set when it has a chance to dry.
These sound delicious…and what great photos!!!
Cannot wait to make these cookies. In fact, since you reminded me, Recipe Boy, I will check out my local you-pick-em blueberry farms, and make it a blueberry field trip, resulting in cookies. I am a cakey-kind-of-cookie person myself, crispy is for chips and crackers to me; and the next to last photo of cookie-tower makes me so happy.
looks yummy ! thanks for the recipe !
Dude! You Rock!! Those look amazing =) Bet you went through some serious milk eating that batch of cookies. I just started my own blog too and wish it was half as cool as yours!! Keep up the great work buddy!! And you like cantaloupe, you’re seriously COOL!!!!
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I just have to say how impressed I am with 1. your blog 2. your food and 3. your photos – well done my dear!! I also happen to LOVE blueberries so this cookie has my name written all over it! Thanks for sharing and excited to see what’s next!
I love the sound (and look) of these blueberry cookies – especially with the lemon drizzle!! I’m not a middle school math teacher, but I do teach at a Massachusetts high school (GO BRUINS!) and I would definitely give these an A+ :).
these are a fabulous idea! i just made lemon blueberry muffins yesterday, and i already feel like i need to make these too. thanks for the great recipe!
Great looking cookies! Go Bruins!
Congrats on your website!! Those look sooooo good. I never thought to put blueberries in cookies. I also love a soft cookie in lieu of the crunchy ones, so I will definitely try these out. ๐
These look simply divine!! ๐
O MY CUPCAKES!!! i made these cookies, but did not do the goo thing, looks simply teriffic, and wow, next time, the icing for me, and them, and all our friends. Where I live the country club is going to have a bake off, and for the first time ever, go figure, having a junior baking contest, 11 and under, now that is what I am talking about, or future Recipe Boys, and Gurls.
Thanks for your recipes, so cool that you are doing this, ya know it is one of the best jobs ever that is taking pix of your food, and your processes, and you need to have a throw down with Bobby Flay now, you’re there, I would watch the show, you will kick batter…lol,
Thanks, and blessings to all, redraven
Oh yeh, 4got to mention the bestest ever part of these glorious clouds, the bluberries, when they burst into your mouth, you are already scoping out the next one, and I resorted to eating all the blueberries out of the cookies, and got in trouble from my daughter, Aspen, and now I have to make more, and the icing now. thanks, redraven.
Looks yummly great Sir.
I am a huge cookie fan and these look superb! Great photos too!
At first I was thinking “uh, blueberry cookies? gross.” But then I saw the finished product and totally changed my mind. I love that they’re cake-like, too. Love super soft cookies!
Ooh, love the combination of blueberry and lemon. I’m sure I’ll be trying this soon.
Great pictures! I love blueberries:-)
Looks great! We’d love for you to share with us at dishfolio.com!
Great recipe and pictures RecipeBoy! We love blueberries at our house, but never tried them in cookie form. ๐
Delicious! Although I might use a bit less flour next time. I used some lemon zest and maybe a half a tablespoon of lemon juice instead of the extract because I didn’t have any, and the recipe still tasted great.
Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I love blueberries. I have made like 900 blueberry smoothies since I got this cool individual type blender for Mothers day. Ok not quite 900 but close and I do have kids.. These look good. Love lemon also..guess you will have to make a smoothie recipe something new for me to try. Well if you like smoothies. ๐
i like blueberrys alot and i like cookies. i bet i like those.mmmmm.those look good. ๐
Fresh blueberries in a cookie? YES PLEASE!! Big blueberry lover here, actually a house full of them ๐ My family will love these! Your doing a great job recipe boy! Keep up the good work!
Three things: Blueberries are my favorite fruit (and they look delicious in these cookies), I love the glaze, and I have those same MIU silicone mats- they work great!
Hey Brooks- Can’t wait for you to get back from camp and cook up something yummy!! Loved the Blueberry Cookies with Lemon Drizzle- Even Carli loved them!!
These cookies look like they would be a hit! Almost healthy enough for breakfast… right?!?! Enjoying your new blog — I’m a new follower.
These cookies look awesome. I’m so excited I discovered your blog!
These look delicious…and that lemon drizzle?! YUM!!
Ooh, these look delicious! I love blueberries AND cookies, so I imagine that these would be wonderful!
These look like muffin tops! Ohhhh man, I’m going to make these as soon as I can. I wish I had been as cultured as you are at the ripe age of 10. Keep on rockin’ it!
These look awfully good and I bet the lemon and blueberry mix makes it extra yummy. Photos are awesome. Love your drizzles and you too!
These look so tasty!!! And variations are just running through my head now, orange and cranberry, lime and raspberry, I’ll have to try these with blueberries and then some of my other ideas! Great blog you have here!
Recipe boy these look amazing! Great photos!
This looks so amazingly good! I know what I would put in instead of blueberries… dark chocolate covered pomegranate bits. SO GOOD! ๐
Made these cookies last night for my dad’s birthday present. (He LOVES blueberries!) Well, it did make THREE dozen, but he got only two dozen after taste testing. And now, I’ve delivered them and he keeps catching me sneaking HIS gift. I am a chocoholic, so I am very surprised that this is my new favorite cookie! Thanks for a yummy AND simple recipe!
I made these today. They were so delicious! Thanks for the recipe.
Just made these cookies. Looks exactly as the picture, mouth watering and pretty! Really good, but the glaze doesn’t really make a difference. Awesome recipe! Already ate 5.
Brooks, you still have a winner here–3 years after you posted this recipe. I made these today to take to a pot luck and added white chocolate chips. I asked my husband to be my tester, and he said these were beyond terrific and among my best ever (and I make a lot of cookies! ). Then he commented that he should have said they were terrible so I would leave them all at home for him.
I’ll have to second what Marlene said. This is still my go-to blueberry cookie recipe and is a huge hit every time I make it. ๐ Thanks!