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Sunshine Lemon Coolers Recipe
Sunshine Lemon Coolers
By Todd Wilbur

Recipe Rating: 3.8 (4 reviews)
 

Brothers Jacob and Joseph Loose had a dream of creating products in a bakery filled with sunshine. In 1912 they got their wish by opening the famous "Thousand Window Bakery" in Long Island City, New York. It was the largest bakery in the world until 1955. Today Sunshine Biscuits has moved to another location in Sayerville, New Jersey, where ovens the size of football fields bake like crazy. Sunshine is now owned by Keebler and continues to produce many baked treats you're likely familiar with, such as Hydrox Cookies, Saltine Crackers, Vienna Fingers, Cheez-it Crackers, and these sweet Lemon Coolers. All we have to do is make a few simple adjustments to the Nilla Wafer clone recipe, and we can create a cool copy of these awesome little tangy wafer cookies. You know the ones -- those little round cookies dusted with lemon-flavored powdered sugar. To make that coating, we'll just use a little unsweeteneed Kool-Aid lemonade drink mix combined with powdered sugar. Shake the cookies in a bag with this mixture (I call it bake 'n shake) and you've got yourself another tasty knock-off.
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup sugar
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Gretchen  
Submitted on 07/28/08
The cookies are good. The texture and consistency are right on... but the cookies need a little more "zip" or tangy flavor for me to rate them as 5 stars. I added lemon extract to the cookie dough. I also added a full teaspoon of lemonade mix to the powdered sugar for the outside. The outside is GREAT but the cookie is still a little plain to me. I'm going to try it again with some lemonade mix in the dough and see if that makes it better.
Rosemary Crabtree  
Submitted on 01/25/07
Absolutely wonderful. Just like the original Lemon Coolers. My daughter loved these as a child and when I found this recipe I was so happy, and she was even happier after I made them. They are fantastic.
Kim Ledbetter  
Submitted on 08/21/06
I had this recipe from you before and lost it. I had to re purchase it because of my kids. These taste like the ones in the store did. I can't keep them in the cookie jar and get lots of requests to make them.
anna  
Submitted on 07/23/05
This recipe left much to be desired... the only thing i liked was the lemon powdered sugar! A much better recipe is the basic snowball cookie recipe with lemon added: cream 2 sticks butter/marg. with 1/3c sugar and 1/2t each vanilla and lemon extracts. add 2 cups all purpose flour and mix well. roll into 1" balls and bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 15-18 minutes. toss hot cookies in the lemon sugar mix described in the recipe above! a much more delicate melt-in-your-mouth cookie!