This Key Lime Cookie Recipe is so chewy and delicious it will make your mouth water with every bite.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time8 minutesmins
Icing and Decorating (Optional)20 minutesmins
Total Time38 minutesmins
Servings: 20cookies
Author: Sydney Love
Ingredients
1boxkey lime cake mix15.25 oz
2eggs
⅓cupmelted butter
Icing (optional)
⅓poundconfectioners sugarsifted
1egg white
1teaspoonlime juicefresh or bottled
green food coloringI use paste colors
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
Using an electric mixer, mix the box of cake mix and the eggs. The texture should be like wet sand.
Add the melted butter to the egg and cake mix mixture. Combine until smooth. The cookie dough will be very thick and slightly sticky.
Let the cookie dough mixture set for 3-5 minutes because that will make it easier to scoop and roll. Scoop cookie dough and roll it in a ball then put it on the prepared cookie sheet.
Bake for 8-10 minutes. They will be soft but they will firm up.
Icing and How to Decorate (optional)
Add all Icing ingredients except food coloring to a medium bowl and mix with an electric mixer. Mix for 5-8 minutes until the peaks are stiff. Before this, it might be a bit like a glaze.
Add about two thirds of icing into a bowl. Add the green food coloring until you think it is a good green color (add a little at a time).
Put the white and green icing into two piping bags. if you don’t have a piping bag, use a zip top bag and cut a small hole in the corner (which is what I used).
Flip over the cookies (icing the bottom). Pipe icing to cover them with the green icing and shake the cookie until the icing is flat. Work in groups of 3 at a time.
Add one dot of white icing in the middle and a circle around the edge of the cookie.
On the outside circle, take a toothpick and run the toothpick into the white dot in the middle. This will resemble a cut lime.
Allow cookies to set for 1-2 hours to harden and firm up. You can also serve them soft if you prefer.