Love lemon? My lemon recipes incorporate this bright and sunny citrus fruit into desserts, breakfasts, drinks, and even dinner! Keep scrolling to find your favorite.
20+ Lemon Recipes
Lemon recipes are my favorite this time of year. Bright, tart, refreshing and yet still perfectly indulgent. Today I’m gathering all of them in one spot so you lemon lovers can easily find your favorites!
It’s a bit hard to pick my favorite, so I’m going to highlight my most popular lemon recipe (my #1 pick here!): lemon blueberry cake. This cake is frosted with my lemon frosting that’s infused with lemon curd (and no extracts or flavorings!), so it’s packed with lemon flavor. It’s a must-try!
1. Lemon Blueberry Cake
One of my most popular cake recipes! You will be amazed at how flavorful it is. I also have lemon blueberry cupcakes, if you’d prefer to make those.
2. Lemon Cheesecake
Highly requested! This recipe perfectly balances lemon and cream cheese flavors with a crisp graham cracker crust.
3. Lemon Meltaway Cookies
As the name suggests, these cookies truly melt in your mouth!
4. Lemon Poppy Seed Scones
Lemon and poppy seed are a classic pairing. This recipe incorporates them into buttery scones!
5. Lemon Tart
A bright and sunny lemon recipe! It’s perfect for summer, especially with some fresh raspberries (or raspberry sauce!) for decoration.
6. Lemon Pound Cake
A classic! This recipe transforms traditional pound cake into a sweet citrus dessert.
7. Lemon Crumb Bars
A bit different from traditional lemon bars (listed below), these lemon crumb bars have a creamy filling and buttery streusel topping.
8. Lemon Meringue Pie
Another classic lemon recipe! Use my homemade pie crust for the best results.
9. Lemon Cookies
These pretty lemon cookies are made without any pudding mixes or food dye.
10. Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Lemons for breakfast? Yes please! I’m sharing a version without poppy seeds a little further down in the list.
11. Lemon Curd
Homemade lemon curd is easy to make and perfect for topping scones, crepes, and so much more.
12. Lemonade
This 3-ingredient lemonade is perfectly balanced every time. I have a few other variations too: watermelon, strawberry, raspberry, and blueberry!
13. Lemon Cake
Looking for a light lemon recipe? My lemon cake is fluffy and topped with an airy cream cheese frosting. I also have a recipe for lemon cupcakes!
14. Lemon Pie
Similar to key lime pie, lemon pie is served chilled and is so refreshing.
15. Lemon Frosting
One of my favorite lemon recipes, I am so proud of this lemon frosting! No extract or food coloring needed!
16. Lemon Bars
I simply can’t share lemon recipes without mentioning lemon bars! They cut beautifully and are so buttery with a crisp (never soggy!) shortbread crust.
17. Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies
Lemon poppyseed again, but this time in buttery, chewy cookie form. Yum!
18. Lemon Muffins
Fresh lemon muffins with a two-ingredient glaze–that’s my kind of breakfast!
19. Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
Smooth and creamy with just the right amount of tart lemon flavor. This would be especially tasty on my zucchini cake or strawberry cake!
20. Lemon Brownies
With the texture of classic brownies and a sweet, tart flavor, these lemon brownies are a refreshing alternative to the norm.
21. Lemon Pasta
Ending my lemon recipes on a savory note! This creamy lemon pasta is so fresh and satisfying. Feel free to add chicken or shrimp for some protein!
Frequently Asked Questions
In some instances it’s fine (like when making my buttermilk substitute or macerated strawberries), but most of my lemon recipes benefit from fresh lemon juice. I typically indicate in the recipe if fresh is necessary (like in my lemon meltaway cookies or hummus).
I suppose you could try substituting another type of citrus in most of these lemon recipes (and my olive oil cake!), but your results will vary. Oranges are sweeter, while limes and grapefruits tend to be a bit bitter. You will need to keep this in mind if you do choose to substitute another fruit.
My lemonade recipes and lemon pie recipe all use 1 cup of lemon juice, which is about 8 lemons for me. You could also make my lemon meringue pie, lemon curd, lemon bars, lemon tart, lemon crumb bars or lemon cheesecake, which all use about 4 lemons.
If you’ve tried some of these lemon recipes, I’d love to know which one is your favorite. If you haven’t, hopefully you’ve found one here that piques your interest.
Is there a lemon recipe you’d like to see that isn’t included in this list? Please send me your requests in the comment section below. I love sharing reader requests!
Enjoy! 🍋
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