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Holiday Lime Cooler Cookies (Cookie Exchange Quantity)

Ring in the holidays with the refreshing and cool taste of citrus cookies.

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Prep Time 1 hr 25 min
Total Time 1 hr 55 min
Servings 72

Ingredients

Cookies

2: cups butter or margarine, softened

1: cup powdered sugar

3 1/2: cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour

1/2: cup cornstarch

2: tablespoons grated lime peel

1: teaspoon vanilla

: Granulated sugar

Lime Glaze and Decoration

1: cup powdered sugar

2: tablespoons Key lime or regular lime juice

2: tubes (0.68 oz each) Betty Crocker® green decorating gel, if desired

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Directions

1 Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat butter and 1 cup powdered sugar with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, cornstarch, lime peel and vanilla until well blended.
2 Shape dough into 3/4-inch balls. Place about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Press bottom of glass into dough to grease, then dip into granulated sugar; press on dough balls until 1/4 inch thick.
3 Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
4 In small bowl, stir together 1 cup powdered sugar and the lime juice. Stir in additional juice if necessary. Spread glaze over cookies. Squeeze drops of decorating gel on glazed cookies; drag toothpick through gel for marbled design.

EXPERT TIPS

Expert Tips

When grating peel from a lime, grate just the green part; the white part will be bitter.

You can make an easy flavor twist by using lemon peel for the lime peel, lemon juice for the lime juice and yellow decorating gel for the green.

Powdered sugar and cornstarch create the melt-in-your-mouth quality of these cookies.

If you like using a cookie press, make lime ribbon cookies. Prepare dough as directed, but do not shape it into balls. Place dough in a cookie press with a ribbon tip, and form long ribbons of dough on ungreased cookie sheet; cut ribbons into 3-inch lengths. Continue as directed for baking.

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Nutrition Information

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING

Serving Size: 1 Cookie

Calories: 90
Calories from Fat: 45),

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 5g; 5%
(Saturated Fat 2 1/2g, 2 1/2% Trans Fat 0g 0% ),
Cholesterol: 15mg; 15%;
Sodium: 35mg; 35%;
Total Carbohydrate: 9g; 9%
(Dietary Fiber 0g 0% Sugars 3g 3% ),
Protein: 0g; 0%

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 4%;
Vitamin C: 0%;
Calcium: 0%;
Iron: 0%;

Exchanges:

1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choices:

1/2

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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Posted 12/24/2012 11:26:04 AM REPORT ABUSE kimk105 said:

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The ladies at the cookie exchange and I loved these cookies, however next time I will add more lime flavor to the short bread cookie. It was very subtle. The glaze was perfect, but I might just use food coloring next time instead of the gel.

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Posted 6/6/2011 5:20:45 PM REPORT ABUSE Bowserbabe said:

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These were soooo good! I made these as a treat for my daughter for bringing home a good report card and they turned out fantastic! I love shortbread/butter cookies and these baked really well. I don't like grated citrus peal so I just added lime juice to the dough plus a little extra lime juice to the frosting. When we ran out of the frosting my daughter pulled out some leftover chocolate frosting and added lime juice to that and loved it!! Really simple, easy to make, and was fun for the kids to help with.

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Posted 4/21/2011 12:55:33 PM REPORT ABUSE beck3814 said:

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i know this sounds lazy but wouldn't this be easy and fast if you used the roll of refrigerated sugar cookie dough and just added the lime skin and did the frosting the same.

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