Lime Flowers
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Holiday Cookies 2005, Special Issue Holiday 2005
- Yield Makes about 2 dozen
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Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for work surface
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons finely grated lime zest, plus 1/4 cup fresh lime juice (about 4 limes total)
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
Directions
- Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl; set aside.
- Put granulated sugar and lime zest in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium speed 1 minute. Add butter, and mix until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Mix in vanilla and lime juice. Reduce speed to low, and gradually mix in flour mixture.
- On a lightly floured work surface, halve the dough. Flatten each half into a 10-inch disk, and wrap each in plastic. Freeze until firm, about 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Working with 1 half at a time, roll out dough on parchment paper to 1/8 inch thick. Cut shapes from dough with a 3-inch flower-shape cookie cutter. Space 1 inch apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Cut a hole in center of each with a 1-inch round cutter. Repeat with remaining disk. Wrap scraps in plastic. Freeze 30 minutes; reroll, and cut.
- Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through, until set, 12 to 13 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack. Before serving, sift confectioners' sugar over cookies.
Nice and easy !
so delish and cute! I've made them several times and they have turned out perfectly every time! The key is to bake them until the edges just start to brown. Perfect!
Adorable, delicious cookies, but I too found the dough very soft and hard to work with. Maybe less lime juice or more flour might help? It helped tremendously to roll the dough between sheets of wax paper and freeze the rolled dough on cookie sheets. It was MUCH easier to cut shapes from the frozen dough than refrigerated. (Also, next time, Instead of dividing dough into two disks I'd roll out four.) Anyway, a bit of work, but worth the effort for the zippy, zesty lime flavor.
its very nice thax for it
Great flavor but harder than a rock. Our family is using them for "dunkers"
Could someone tell me why they could have become SO hard? Did I bake them too long? They certainly are adorable.
If you enjoy these, try the Grapefruit Sandwich cookies! There is nothing better than the taste of summer in the winter.
I rolled these into balls and then rolled them into icing sugar ,flattened them and then baked them. What a hit and they are nice and tangy
Debbie R, colored sugar is excellent to use on these cookies during the holidays. You can do some with colored sugar and some with a dust of confectioner sugar showing like snow.
Debbie R, colored sugar is excellent to use on these cookies during the holidays. You can do some with colored sugar and some with a dust of confectioner sugar showing like snow.
Irissa, I have interchanged lemon and lime in many recipes and have had great results. Just use the same amounts and it should be great!
I wonder - would it be possible to make these with Lemon in place of the LIime?? I love anything Lemon!! I may just go ahead and try it :-)
Instead on the powered sugar after baking could you use colored sugar before?
I'm thing of making Christmas trees
cut the chilled dough out on parchment paper and don't peel off; just transfer the paper to the cookie sheet and bake.
roll and cut them out on parchment paper; after you chill them; just transfer the parchment to the cookie sheet; no peeling off the counter needed
I would divide the dough into small portions equal to the amount of how many cookies fit on your cookie sheet. These are so delicious! Good luck!
These are such cute cookies! I had some trouble with them, though. The dough warmed so quickly that it was very difficult to pick up off the counter and put onto the pan after cutting out the shapes. I divided the dough into several sections and kept them in the fridge when I wasn't using them, but it still warmed and softened very quickly when i rolled it out. Any suggestions?