If you love the fresh taste of lemon, find all our best lemon recipes here, including drinks, cocktails, desserts, soups, salads and more! Lemon is one of those super versatile flavors that everyone loves, so find our reader-favorite lemon recipes here, including Lemon Drop Shots, Lemon Salad Dressing and Lemon Crinkle Cookies.

Pink Lemonade

A summer classic! Learn to make the best homemade pink lemonade.

Lemon Drop Jello Shots

How to make the best lemon drop jello shots—including how to serve in the rind!

Lemon Drop Martini

This refreshing lemon drop martini is made with vodka or gin, triple sec, simple syrup, and lemon juice. You can garnish a lemon drop martini with a sugared rim, a thin lemon slice, a lemon twist, lemon wedge, or nothing at all.

Long Island Iced Tea

A Long Island Iced Tea is made from mixing different liquors (vodka, tequila, white rum, gin, and triple sec) along with simple syrup, lemon juice and a splash of cola.

French 75

The French 75 is a classic cocktail, and for good reason! With the combination of bubbly champagne, the lightness of fresh lemon, and the botanical juniper notes of gin, this drink has stood the test of time and is a fan favorite at cocktail hours everywhere.

Arnold Palmer Drink

What can be better than lemonade and iced tea? Combining them together! Although this recipe is extremely simple, there are tons of variations and finding the ratio you like best is important.

Raspberry Lemonade Cocktail

This next cocktail is so sweet, tart and sparkling! It’s perfect for a party too. You mix together triple sec, limoncello, raspberries, lemons, and club soda.

Zucchini Pizza Crust with Lemony Pea Pesto

This crust is made with zucchini, almond flour, brown rice flour, eggs, garlic, lemon, frozen peas, and pine nuts. Zucchini pizza is a great way to sneak in extra servings of vegetables, and it is naturally lower in carbohydrates and higher in fiber compared to traditional crusts.

Strawberry Basil Lemonade Cocktail

This cocktail will become one of your absolute favorite summertime drinks. It’s so refreshing with strawberries, basil, vodka, and lemonade.

Mini Citrus Tarts

These mini tarts have lemons, egg yolks, lemon juice, sugar, and heavy cream. It’s the perfect blend of sour and sweet.

Cucumber Gin Lemonade

A delicious and refreshing recipe for cucumber lemonade has lemon juice, cucumber juice, gin, club soda, and simple syrup. It’s tart, semi-sweet, and super refreshing.

Lemony Kale Salad

This recipe is super easy and super delicious (not to mention good for you!). You can make this kale salad with kale, almonds, mayo, lemon juice, sugar, and poppy seeds.

Lemon and Rosemary Marshmallows

Sweet, tart, and a little touch of savory all work together to make these super special. These marshmallows are made with gelatin, sugar, corn syrup, lemon extract, powder sugar, and rosemary.

Sky High Lemon Meringue Pie

Are you ready for some citrus in your life? This lemon meringue pie is made with sugar, flour, corn starch, lemon juice, lime juice, lemon, and egg yolks.

Lemon Bar Pretzel Ice Cream

Lemon flavored ice cream with lemon bar chunks and pretzels. Lemon is having a flavor moment in the dessert world—and if it’s not, it should be!

Lemon Drop Shot

Lemon drop shots are a lot of fun and great to serve at parties. You can make them with vodka, lemon juice, simple syrup, and sugar.

Lemon Crinkle Cookies

These cookies are simple, sweet, and absolutely bursting with flavor. They are made with sugar, eggs, lemon, flour, baking powder, and powdered sugar.

Blood Orange Lemon Fizz

This delicious drink is made with limoncello, grenadine, triple sec, lemon, blood oranges, and club soda. This is such a yummy, fizzy cocktail.

Lemony Chickpea Soup

I love that this soup is incredibly simple and quick to make, using just a handful of ingredients like shallot, garlic, lemon, chicken stock, and chickpeas.

Lemon Vinaigrette Salad Dressing

This recipe is simple to make. You can whip up your own batch of creamy lemon vinaigrette in just five minutes with lemon juice, dijon mustard, honey, olive oil, garlic, and white vinegar.

Whiskey Lemonade

This cocktail is simple, tart and lightly sweet with just the right amount of booziness. Made with whiskey, fresh lemons, club soda, simple syrup, and lime juice.