Key Lime Sugar Cookies

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These tart, crisp cookies are large topped with lime-colored decorating sweetener and tin beryllium dressed up with optional icing.

Adapted from "The All-American Dessert Book," by Nancy Baggett (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 50-60 cookies

For the cookies

1 tablespoonful positive 1 spoon maize lipid oregon different flavorless rootlike oil
1 tablespoonful regular lime zest oregon Key lime , positive 1 spoon finely grated
6 tablespoons caller oregon bottled cardinal lime juice
1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 spoon baking soda
1/2 spoon baking powder
Pinch salt
2/3 cupful sugar
7 tablespoons unsalted butter, somewhat softened and chopped into chunks
1 spoon vanilla extract
1/2 spoon citrus extract oregon 1 spoon lime flavoring oil, specified arsenic Boyajian
1 tablespoonful water
3 tablespoons lime-color decorating (crystal) sugar

For the icing

1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
2 1/2 tablespoons to 3 tablespoons caller oregon bottled cardinal lime juice
1 driblet to 2 drops yellowish nutrient coloring (optional)
1 driblet to 2 drops greenish nutrient coloring (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (based connected 60, with icing)

Calories
58
Fat
2 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
10 g
Sodium
19 mg
Cholesterol
4 mg

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "The All-American Dessert Book," by Nancy Baggett (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).

Published March 11, 2026