The cookies take only 8 minutes too cook and will look slightly undercooked, but fear not, they will be done!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword coconut and lime sugar cookies
Ingredients
⅔cupgranulated sugar, plus 3 tablespoons for pressing cookie dough balls
⅓cuppowdered sugar
½cupbutter, at room temperature
⅓cupvegetable oil
1 ½tablespoonsfreshly squeezed lime juice, about 2 ½ limes plus 1 lime for garnish
1teaspoonlime zest
1large egg
3cupsall-purpose flour
½teaspoonbaking soda
½teaspooncream of tartar
½teaspoonsalt
For the Frosting
¼cupbutter
4tablespoonscream cheese
3teaspoonscoconut extract
2cupspowdered sugar
1-2tablespoonshalf and half or heavy cream
½cupshredded sweetened coconut
Lime slivers and coarse sugar crystals for garnish
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In the bowl of a stand mixer or a large bowl, cream the ⅔ cup granulated sugar, the powdered sugar and butter until fluffy and light. Add the vegetable oil, lime juice and zest and the egg and cream until smooth.
In a smaller bowl, toss together the flour with with baking soda, cream of tartar and salt. Mix half of the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and then add the other half and mix until dough comes together and is mixed through.
Roll dough into balls the size of golf balls (I use a #24 cookie scoop) and place 2 inches apart on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a Silpat or sprayed with non-stick baking spray.
Add the remaining 3 tablespoons sugar to a shallow bowl. Smudge a bit of the cookie dough on the bottom of a small glass jar before dipping in the sugar so the dough doesn't stick to the jar. Press the dough balls with the jar dipped in sugar to ½ cm thick and the edges crack just a bit.
Bake for 8 minutes. The cookies won't brown and may look look undercooked, but they will be done.
Let the cookies sit on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
While the cookies are baking, prepare the frosting by combining the ingredients in a bowl and mixing until smooth.
Once cookies are cool, frost the cookies and garnish with a few pinches of coconut flakes and sugar crystals and top with a sliver of lime.