Ingredients:
Castor Sugar – 5 tbsps
Finely grated rind of 2 limes
Juice of 1 lime
Flour – 1 1/2 cups
Lemon Sugar for sprinkling (or extra castor sugar)
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 190 degrees C. Grease 2 baking sheets.
- Beat the butter & sugar till creamy & soft.I do this by hand.
- Beat in the lime juice & rind (I do this too by hand & don’t use the mixer at all for this recipe).
- Gradually add the flour and gently pull the dough in together to form a soft ball.
- Roll out on a lightly floured suface to about 1/2 ” thickness ( for sandwich cookies I roll to a 1/4 ” thickness).
- Put on the baking sheet,sprinkle with lemon or castor sugar, & bake for about 20 minutes till golden brown.
- Remove to a cookie rack to cool.
- Makes about 2-3 dozen.
Crisp & tangy…
Here’s where I thought that adding a dash of chocolate always dresses up things some more…so why not? I sandwiched the flowers in pairs- some with circle cut-outs in the centre, some whole cookies & some little pairs !! They were delicious both ways-with or without the chocolate!
Those are cool cookies and pics. I’m amazed with your baking skill.
beautiful and lovely cookies
Aha yes, the ever amazing zester. Just the other day as I was using mine, I found myself wondering, “what did you use before the zester?”
Lime is such a great flavor, one of my favorites! Your cookies look beautiful
Those make a great gift! I love the tanginess of lemon!
I think you should rethink about rejoining DB. Since there are exceptions in the ingerdients allowed, I bet We from India can do it too with the available ingredients!!
and they look ever so pretty
Thanks Rina & Sagari…I think this is the cookie time of the year I like best!
And yes Cynthia…come to think of it; where would we be without that zester? Small things that mean so much!
Meeso & Ben…many thanks :0)
Hi Rachel…u have set me thinking about DB once again! Thanks for the encouragement.
Lovely, lovely -both recipe and the pics.
What a great bundle these will make as a gift – they are a delight!
Enlivening shortbread cookies with zesty citrus is simply fantastic! I especially love the sparkling sugar on top–so festive and pretty!
Thank you so much for sending another beautiful entry to Eat Christmas Cookies.
-Susan
Lovely cookies! I love the zesty flavour you have here!
Those wouldn’t have lasted more than 2 hrs if they had come out of my oven looking like that! You are awesome!
I am a fan of your baking for life!
Bindiya,Anita,Susan,Ahn,Shweta & Aparna…’Bow scrape’. MUCHAS GRACIAS!!
Cookies on a string ? This is funny. I ll make a bracelet and nibble on them on my way to work. How neat!
Your Xmas Spoonful entries make me so happy.
Beautiful cookies – I absolutely loved the idea of using a string to hold them together!
Looks interesting!!!!!!This going to be kid's all time favorite!Great blog!
these look so great! thinking about doing a batch for my daughters bday! when you sandwich with chocolate – what do you use? just melted chocolate, nutella? i'm a little daft at baking so please help!