Inspired by the key lime pie at Billy’s, but wanting something a little lighter, I went to work on the traditional sugar cookie, modifying Carole Walters’s recipe in Great Cookies. The addition of lime juice and zest, and the scaled-down size, make these comparatively guilt-free, and so summery. At first, they taste like a classic sugar cookie, but the lime reveals itself seconds later, providing a lingering, citrus tang.
Makes about 70 small cookies
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 1/4 plus 1/3 cups sugar
2 large eggs, separated
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tb milk
Zest and juice of 1 lime
Preheat oven to 375.
Sift together first four ingredients; set aside.
Cream butter and 1 1/4 cups sugar;when lightened in color, add egg yolks, vanilla, and lime juice and zest. Mix for 1 minute, scraping down sides of bowl. Add half of dry ingredients to batter, mixing until just combined. Add milk, add the rest of the dry ingredients.
Using hands, shape 1 tb of dough into a ball; repeat, placing balls 12 to a cookie sheet. Then, with the bottom of a glass, flatten the balls of dough. Beat egg whites, brush over flattened cookie dough, and sprinkle with remaining 1/3 cup sugar. Bake for 10 minutes, or until cookies are still pale, with golden edges. Remove to cooling rack.
These keep well for up to 3 days, in an airtight container.
Comments 1
wow! i’ve got a lot of lime juice, and an event coming up that features cookies….i’m planning to feature these lime sugar babies!
Posted 20 May 2009 at 2:39 pm ¶thanks so much! little cafe in the big woods…
tess, chief coffee & cookie maker
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[...] The recipe was simple enough, and the cookies are soft and once cooled, the flavor of the lime is quite apparent. We noticed that after sampling a warm cookie, it wasn’t really obvious that the cookies contained much lime at all. However, the cooled cookies have a distinct – but not overwhelming – lime flavor. I made my cookies bigger than the suggested size, because I didn’t fancy being in the kitchen for over an hour just baking trays of cookies. I still got over thirty cookies out of the recipe, which is plenty for us to munch on a few and for me to take the rest to my potluck on Sunday. Lime Sugar Cookies [...]
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