The weekend after Easter, my mom, my brother, and I met up with my aunt and cousins for a weekend in Disneyland. We all stayed at the same place, and each morning during our trip, we rode the hotel’s shuttle to the theme park and arrived shortly before the gates opened.
As my cousins’ first time at Disneyland, we packed as many rides into each day as we possibly could. We stood in the short lines for our favorite ones first, snagged front-of-the-line tickets with Disney’s new MaxPass option in their smartphone app for the other popular rides with extremely long queues, hopped on a few less popular ones in between, and ended up walking over nine miles each day as a result.
When we walked to the shuttle pick-up on the night of our second full day, even after eating a large dinner salad in California Adventure, I still felt a little hungry. I thought about enjoying a few of the mini chocolate chip cookies from Trader Joe’s that Mom had left back in our hotel room while we waited for the driver to arrive, and I mentioned that I thought those treats might be egg-free.
My brother’s eyes immediately lit up. “Really??” he asked excitedly. “I’ll check when we get back!” He’s severely allergic to eggs, and it’s rare for him to find store-bought options made without them that he actually enjoys.
As soon as we opened our hotel room door, he dashed to the plastic tub of cookies… And discovered that I had misremembered. Those bite-sized chocolate chip cookies included eggs after all, and although he reassured me he’d be fine with the fruity candy he had packed as his sweet treats, I still felt horrible.
So when I see him next week while visiting my parents, I’m bringing a batch of these Healthy Lemon Sugar Cookies! Lemon sugar cookies are his all-time favorite cookie flavor, so I intentionally made these without eggs. (They also have no dairy, refined flour or sugar!)
Even so, these healthy lemon sugar cookies are perfectly sweet, soft and chewy, and bursting with bright sunshiny citrus flavor. They’re also easier to make than you’d expect (no mixer required!) and only 37 calories!
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