Recipes
Lime Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients
12 oz all purpose flour, sifted
8 oz butter or margarine
5 oz sugar
2 tbsp grated lime zest
Juice of 1 lime
Pinch of salt
A little extra sugar for sprinkling
Directions
- Place flour, sugar and salt in a bowl and mix with a spoon to incorporate all the ingredients.
- Using a hand mixer, cream together the butter or margarine with the sugar and lime zest. Add the lime juice. Mix well.
- Add the flour and mix to form a dough. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and form into a disc. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for half hour – 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly grease and flour a baking sheet
- Cut dough in half and place on floured board. Roll out to ½ inch thick. Cut out cookies with a floured cookie cutter and place on prepared baking sheet.
- Bake in preheated oven until golden brown. Remove from sheet and place on a wire rack to cool.
- Sprinkle with a little sugar or drizzle with Lime Rum Icing.
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