A Taste of Sunshine (Cookies)

Our forecast for sun is still holding, and we're quite excited. So excited, in fact, that we just had to have a little taste last night.

The site I found these on claimed they taste like sunshine...



...and they do!


They are also:

• Very easy to make.


• Only 61 calories a piece (again, according to the site I found them on).


• And, have a very light, chewy texture.

I've made cake mix cookies before, but these were surprisingly good.

I'm renaming them:

Lemon Sunshines

1 lemon cake mix

2 eggs

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 tablespoon lemon juice

grated zest from 1 lemon

powdered sugar for rolling


Combine the cake mix, eggs, oil, juice and zest, and mix until moist. Roll into 1 inch balls, and toss in the powdered sugar. You can refrigerate the dough for a while, to make it easier to handle, but I did not.

Place the sugar coated cookies on a greased cookie sheet (the original recipe says ungreased, but I found they stuck a little that way), and bake for six to nine minutes at 375 degrees Fahrenheit, or until the bottoms begin to brown.

It's great to be a homeschooler.