What Is Lemon extract and How Can I Use It?

If lemon extract has turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use it with confidence and how to choose it, cook it, store it, what to substitute, and 194 recipes to try it in.

Where found

Lemon extract is usually found in the baking supplies section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.

In Chinese:	柠檬提取物
British (UK) term:
en français:	extrait de citron
en español:	extracto de limón

Recipes using lemon extract

There are 194 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Yummy Crisp Sugar Cookies

Crisp sugar cookies: thin, snappy roll-out cookies with vanilla and a hint of lemon, sprinkled with sugar before baking. Old-fashioned cookie jar staple that holds intricate cutter shapes.

Betty's Sugar Cookies

Betty's old-fashioned sugar cookies with vanilla, almond, and lemon extract plus tangy buttermilk. Tender, soft-centered cut-outs that hold their shape and beg for icing or sugar sprinkles.

Twinkies

Homemade Twinkies made with pound cake mix baked in DIY foil molds and filled with a fluffy vanilla cream. A fun copycat recipe that tastes fresher and better than the store-bought original.

Grape Snack Muffins

Whole-wheat grape juice muffins with blue cornmeal, yogurt, and a pinch of nutmeg. Naturally sweetened with concord grape juice, no refined sugar. A wholesome lunchbox snack.

Mrs. Johnson's Peach Preserves

Mrs. Johnson's peach preserves boil ripe sliced peaches in clear sugar syrup with lemon extract for old-fashioned Texas-style preserves. Spoon over biscuits or warm over vanilla ice cream.

Lemon Raspberry Muffins

Lemon raspberry muffins bake up tender with bright lemon extract, jammy raspberry pockets and a golden bakery-style dome. A bright weekend breakfast treat.

Prize-winning Lemon Blueberry Muffins

Prize-winning lemon blueberry muffins with yogurt cheese, fresh lemon zest, and a double hit of citrus from extract. Tender, tangy, blueberry-packed bakery-style muffins from scratch.

Lemon-Lime Tea Cookies

Soft, light and buttery cookies with a burst of citrusy flavor. Perfect for a garden party.

Lemon-Lime Tea Cookies

Soft, light and buttery cookies with a burst of citrusy flavor. Perfect for a garden party.

Easter Yogurt Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

These yogurt lemon cupcakes are delicious, they are so moist and lemony; if you don't have lemon extract, just add more freshly grated lemon zest and juice; frost them with the delicious lemon cream cheese frosting, decorate them into your favorite Easter characters. Everyone will enjoy these cute and delicious cupcakes.

Lemon Pecan Pie

Lemon pecan pie skips corn syrup and uses lemon extract plus juice to brighten a buttery brown sugar custard packed with toasted pecans. The bright twist on Southern pecan pie.

Whole Wheat Lemony Ricotta Muffins

These deliciously moist and lemony ricotta muffins are made with most whole wheat flour and olive oil, which adds health benefits to your diet without losing any great flavor and texture.

Lemon Cooler Cookies

A double-dose of lemon zing, a great lemon cookie for Chrismas or any time of the year.

Lemon Snowflake Cookies

Lemon snowflake cookies with a tender lemon-zest dough rolled thin, cut with fluted cutters, and decorated with lemon royal icing piped into snowflake patterns. A beautiful holiday cookie.

Lemon Snowflake Cookies

Lemon snowflake cookies with a tender lemon-zest dough rolled thin, cut with fluted cutters, and decorated with lemon royal icing piped into snowflake patterns. A beautiful holiday cookie.

Mom's Rice Pudding

This recipe is my Great Grandmother Thorn's recipe. (GG's mother) So that would make it your Great Great Grandmother.

Angel Pound Cake

Angel pound cake combines the richness of a butter pound cake with a lighter, more tender crumb. Made with butter, shortening, and a hint of lemon extract, baked in a tube pan for an hour and 15 minutes.

Pineapple Bundt Cake

Pineapple bundt cake with crushed pineapple folded into a buttery cake-flour batter and a sneaky hit of lemon extract to brighten the tropical flavor. Tender, moist, and gorgeous from the fluted pan.

Old Fashioned Soft Sugar Cookie/Teacakes

This recipe makes soft, fat sugar cookies. Great big ones too.

Lemon Meringue Pie Macarons

These lemon pie macarons will give you the flavor of the lemon meringue pie and texture of the macarons. Nothing can be happier than enjoying one of these sweets.

Sara Lee's Pound Cake

Sara Lee copycat pound cake with powdered sugar and sour cream. Dense, buttery loaf cake baked in 65 minutes, freezes beautifully.

Moist Yogurt Lemon Cupcakes

These yogurt lemon cupcakes are delicious, they are so moist and lemony; if you don't have lemon extract, just add more freshly grated lemon zest and juice; you can eat them plain or you can frost them with any kind of creamy frosting, which adds some creaminess and sweetness. Absolutely a great cupcake recipe that everybody loves.