Key Lime Pie Sugar Cookies
(recipe adapted from The Idea Room)
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter room temperature
- 3/4 cups Vegetable Oil
- 1 1/4 cups Sugar
- 3/4 cup Powdered Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons Water
- 1 tsp Lime Juice
- 1Tsp Lime Zest
- 2 Eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 teaspoon Cream of Tarter
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 5 1/2 cups Flour
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature
- 3/4 cup cream cheese
- 2 cup Powdered Sugar
- 1 tsp lime juice
- 1Tbsp Lime Zest
- Milk to right consistency
Instructions
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Cream together Butter, Vegetable Oil, Sugars, Water, and Eggs.
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Combine dry ingredients and slowly add to butter mixture.
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Mix until everything is combined. Your dough should be a little crumbly and not sticky at all.
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Roll a golf ball sized ball of dough and place it on your cookie sheet
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Put 1/4 c of sugar and a pinch of salt in a dish (this is in addition to the sugar and salt listed above.) Stick the bottom of a glass in it. This is going to be your cookie press.
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Firmly press it into the center of your dough ball. You want your dough to spill out over the sides of the glass. If there is a lip its even better.
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Bake at 350 degrees F for 8 minutes. They should just barely be browning on the bottom. Move cookies to a cooling rack. Once they are cool put them in the fridge.
Frosting:
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Start by creaming together butter and cream cheese and salt. Slowly add powdered sugar. When it gets so thick its not frosting like add a splash of milk.
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Alternate this process until your frosting is the desired consistency. Add 1 drop of red food coloring and whip on high for 1 minute.
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Keep cookies in a sealed container until they are ready to serve.
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Frost right before serving.