Cookie Recipes
Iced Key Lime Cookies
Yield: 50
Ingredients
Butter Cookies
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Key lime juice
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Key Lime Icing
- 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons Key lime juice
Instructions
Butter Cookies
- Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes, scraping the bowl down as needed. Add the egg yolk, then the vanilla extract and 1 1/2 teaspoons Key lime juice. Lastly, blend in the flour.
- Transfer the dough to a large piece of plastic wrap and form into a cylinder that is 2 1/4 inches in diameter.
- Refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight.
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter 2 large cookie sheets and set aside.
- Cut the cookies into 1/4 inch slices.
- Place the slices on the cookie sheets and bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Place the cookie sheets onto a cooling rack and cool for 5 minutes.
- Transfer the cookies to the cooling rack.
Key Lime Icing
- Combine the confectioners' sugar and 1 1/2 tablespoons Key lime juice in a small bowl. Brush the tops of the cookies with the icing as soon as the cookies are transferred off the cookie sheets.