Key Lime Cookies

By kayjayjohnson

You'll feel like you are vacationing on an island with these key lime cookies! Subtle lime taste of the cookies that are dusted with powdered sugar will melt in your mouth.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, 1 stick, room temp and very softened (don’t microwave the butter to soften though)
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 egg plus 1 egg yolk
• 1/4 cup Key lime or other lime juice
• 2 teaspoons lime zest (grated peel)
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Confectioners’ sugar (for topping)

Details

Adapted from stumbleupon.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350°F

In a large bowl, cream butter (that means mix/whip until fluffy) and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and egg yolk, beating until creamy. Beat in lime juice and zest just until combined.

Stir in flour, baking powder, and salt; mix well. Refrigerate dough 60 minutes, until firm (I cheated and just popped the dough in the freezer for like 25 mins and it was fine).

Shape dough into 1-inch balls and place 1 inch apart on cookie sheets.

Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until light golden. Transfer to wire rack. Let them cool completely before tasting or they’ll taste realllly zesty. Dust cookies lightly with confectioners’ sugar through a hand strainer.