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Iced Key Lime Cookies
Iced Key Lime Cookies are chewy sugar cookies with a sweet-tart key lime icing. Add some zest on top for an extra touch of lime flavor and color.
Ingredients
For the Cookies
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon table salt
12 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 whole large egg
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 tablespoon key lime zest (about 3-4 key limes)
2 teaspoons key lime juice (about 1-2 key limes)
For the Glaze
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 teaspoons key lime zest (about 2 key limes), plus more for garnishing each cookie
2 tablespoons key lime juice (about 6-8 key limes)
2 tablespoons whole milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Pinch of table salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F with rack in the upper third of the oven.
- Line insulated cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- In a bowl, whisk flour, baking soda and salt.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat butter with both sugars for five minutes and until creamy.
- With mixer running on low, beat in the egg. Scrape the bowl and beat again.
- Beat in the vanilla, key lime zest and key lime juice.
- With mixer running on low, slowly add in the flour. Scrape and mix just to combine.
- With a #40 one-ounce scoop, scoop out 40 cookies and place 10 on a pan and bake one pan at a time on the upper rack for 12 minutes, rotating halfway through. (We lined four dough-balls down each side and two in the center, spacing them to leave room for spreading, and they will spread).
- Slide the cookies with the parchment onto a cooling rack and let cool for five minutes. Then use a small spatula to move them from the parchment and back onto the cooling rack to cool completely. Repeat with the remaining three batches.
- While the cookies cook and cool, make the glaze by whisking all the glaze ingredients until smooth. Add more milk or powdered sugar as needed to get a thick spreadable glaze.
- Once the cookies are cooled, use a spoon to add glaze to each cookie then spread with a small offset spatula.
- Finally, zest fresh key lime over each cookie while the glaze is still wet and serve.
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