How to Make Lemon Sugar

How to Make Lemon Sugar ~ this is an easy technique for infusing real lemon flavor into sugar for all your baking projects.

Prep time: PT5M

Total time: PT5M

Rating

4.27 stars (45 reviews)

baking, lemon sugar, sugar

Wash and dry the lemons. Carefully remove the zest from the lemons, using a serrated vegetable peeler. You want to remove only the bright yellow part, not the bitter white pith underneath.
Put the sugar and the zest in a food processor and pulse to combine. Then process until the zest is fully incorporated into the sugar. This will take under a minute. Take a look, the sugar should be fragrant, moist, and pale yellow. If you see chunks of zest, process a little longer. Fine bits of zest are ok.
Use your sugar in your recipe right away for freshest flavor, or store in a zip lock freezer bag in the refrigerator and use promptly.

Sandra on 2024-05-22 (5 stars):
I made this lemon sugar for a vanilla Birthday cake that I wanted to give it more pop. I used 2 lemons for 1 cup and it was Perfect! I love this lemon hack, I’ll use it all the time! Thank you!
P Gammy on 2024-05-18 (5 stars):
I love thus recipe!!!! I used thus lemon suger in my Soft & Chewey Lemon Cookies. And they came out P-E-R-F-E-C-T. This will be my lemon cheat for my lemony treats. 🍋
Pam on 2023-12-14 (5 stars):
Thank you!
Sheri on 2023-02-22 (5 stars):
I make a lemon blueberry biscotti. I put vanilla candy coating on the flat bottom and then press it into the lemon sugar. I added some gold sugar I had on hand and it was just so pretty and sparkly.
Valerie Nielsen on 2021-06-25 (5 stars):
Sue, Maybe I was dreaming, but don't you have a lemon cake that uses lemon sugar in the batter and then you save some of the sugar and sprinkle in top of the frosted cake? I was POSSITIVE, I made something like that a few years ago. Thanks