Okay, so lime snowball cookies for my sixth week of Christmas cookies. It was a toss up of cookies vs. bars. Cookies, being more radically different than last week's post, won. I've made plenty a mexican wedding cookie, or russian tea cake, or whatever you like to call them, for the past few christmases and this was a welcome change. It's a lot like a shortbread being crumbly and crunchy, but smooth and sweet all together. Okay, so it might actually be a shortbread cookie with it's 1-2-3 sugar - butter - flour ratio, but they're good. Then after all that butter and sugar goodness is a tonne of lime. Lime! It makes this zest and bright with total in-your-face citrus. I gave them all away and everyone loved them! Grandparent, co-workers, friends. A few people even asked for the recipe. Less than 24 hours later, they're all gone. Great!
Baking notes:
-I did not have the lime oil, nor could I find it at my local store. Instead I put in two tsp of lime zest and omitted the oil. Worked fine.
-I weighed the cookies for consistent baking. The first batch I did at 12 grams per cookie, but they were a little too small. So the next tray had 15 gram cookies on it. They baked up better
-I baked the 12 gram cookies for 13 minutes, but they were underdone and burning at the same time. The 15 gram cookies I baked a little lower for 20 minutes and they were perfect.
46/569
The recipe for
Lime Snowball Cookies can be found on the epicurious website.
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