Key Lime Spritz Cookies
- Ready In:
- 48mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
84
ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon finely shredded key lime peel or 1 teaspoon lime peel
- 2 teaspoons key lime juice or 2 teaspoons lime juice
- 2 1⁄2 cups flour
- coarse sugar (optional)
- lime icing (recipe is below) (optional)
- green colored crystal sugar (optional)
directions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.
- Add sugar, salt and baking powder. Beat until combined.
- Beat in lime juice and egg.
- Beat in flour (if the dough gets too stiff, continue combining with a wooden spoon).
- Stir in lime peel.
- Place unchilled dough in cookie press and form shapes one inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
- Top with coarse sugar, if desired.
- Bake for 6-8 minutes until edges are firm but not brown.
- Transfer to wire racks to cool.
- If desired, drizzle with Lime Icing and let stand 20 minutes or until set, or dip cookies in icing and top with green sugar.
- LIME ICING: Stir together 3/4 cup powdered sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons lime juice and 2-3 teaspoons of milk to make a drizzling consistency. Tint with green food coloring if you like. Makes about 1/3 cup.
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Vino Girl
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
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