Fresh Mint and Lime Cookies with Lemon Drizzle
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Cookies, Sweets
Serves: 54 Cookies
 
Entertaining this summer? Looking for a refreshing treat? You got it. These fresh mint and lime cookies are the best!
Ingredients
For the cookies:
  • 200gr Cold Butter – Cubed
  • 2 Cups (300gr) All Purpose Flour
  • ¾ Cup (185gr) White Granulated Sugar
  • Zest from 1 Fresh Lime (you can use lemon)
  • ⅛ Cup Fresh Lime (or lemon) Juice
  • ½ Cup Fresh Mint Leaves (About 7 Sprigs – Just the leaves)
  • 3 Tbsp Water
For the Lemon Glaze:
  • 1 Cup Powdered Sugar
  • 1 Tbsp Fresh Lemon Juice
  • 2 Tbsp Milk
Instructions
Prepare the Cookies:
  1. Place the flour, sugar, ½ of the Butter (100gr), the lime zest and the lime juice in a large mixer bowl.
  2. Place the other ½ of the Butter (100gr) and the Fresh Mint Leaves in a food processor (or Chopper) and grind until combined (you will have butter with tiny green pieces in it)
  3. Add the mint butter to the mixer bowl and mix well
  4. The mixed dough will have coarse sand texture, so add 3 tbsp water one after the other
  5. You should now have well mixed dough the separates from the bowl sides
  6. Divide the dough into 2 balls and roll each until you get a 10 inch long roll
  7. Take the 2 rolls and place in the freezer for 20 minutes
  8. Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and prepare 1-2 baking sheets layered with parchment paper
  9. After 20 minutes remove rolls from freezer and quickly (you don’t want them to completely thaw, when they are frozen it is much easier to slice) slice them into round cookies about ½ inch thick each and place on parchment paper layered baking sheets.
  10. Make sure the cookies are placed at least 1½ inch apart
  11. Bake for 10-12 minutes until the cookies begin to get a golden brown color on the edges
  12. Remove from oven and let cool completely. Do not move the cookies until they are cool. When you remove them you will notice they are soft, that’s fine, they will become nice and crispy after they’re cooled.
Prepare the Lemon Glaze:
  1. Whisk (or stir well using a fork) all the ingredients together until smooth.
Glaze the Cookies:
  1. After the cookies are cool, pick up some glaze with a fork and drizzle on the cookies.
Recipe by Maya`s Kitchen at https://www.mayaskitchen.info/2013/07/24/fresh-mint-lime-cookies-with-lemon-drizzle/