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    Home » By Category » Appetizers & Snacks » Baked & Grilled

    Published: May 7, 2011 · Modified: Dec 27, 2019 by Usha Rao

    Anjum Anand's Easy Lime Cookies

    Plate of easy lime cookies.

    Total Time: 18 – 25 minutes
    Preparation: 10 – 15 minutes
    Bake Time: 8-10
    Yields: 8

    Ingredients:

    • ½ cup All Purpose Flour
    • ¼ cup Confectioners’ Sugar
    • 2 tbsp. melted Unsalted Butter or Ghee (I used melted butter)
    • 1 tbsp. Milk (if required)
    • 1 ½ tsp. Lime Zest
    • 1 tsp. Superfine Sugar
    • 8 Pistachios sliced and broken into small pieces

    Preparation:

    • Mix together all-purpose flour, confectioners’ sugar, butter/ghee, milk and half the lime zest to make the dough.
    • Lightly pound together superfine sugar and remaining lime zest to make a lime coated sugar.
    • Pre-heat the oven to 350F.
    • Make 8-10 balls from the dough. I made 8 balls. Make round flat discs from each ball, pressing them in your palm. Press them with your fingers to flatten it as much as you can. Then place them a lined baking sheet and press them again to flatten them more. Thinner the cookie you make, crispier the cookies.
    • Sprinkle lime coated sugar on the top of each cookie, followed by pistachios.
    • Bake them for 8-10 minutes in the pre heated oven until the edges turn light brown. I baked them for 10 minutes. Remove them immediately from the baking sheet and let them cool completely on a cooling rack. I forgot to remove mine right away and some of my cookies continued to bake and were a little burnt. They were still edible and I finished all the cookies even before U got home from work!
    • Once the cookies are cooled,  store them in an air tight container.

    Note:

    • Oven temperatures vary from oven to oven. Check the cookies 6-7 minutes into baking.
    • Cookies will continue to bake even after removing from the oven.
    • Cookies might be soft when you remove the cookies from the oven, they might be soft but as they cool, they will get crispy.

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    1. Radhika says

      May 10, 2011 at 1:48 am

      The cookies are awesome.The lemon flavor along with tea. Oh makes my mouth to water. Bookmarked. inviting you to follow my blog.

      Reply
    2. Anu says

      May 10, 2011 at 1:32 am

      These are perfect snack cookies to binge on. Love the texture. I'm sure it was crispy yet melt in your mouth types. Nice!

      Reply
    3. Ria says

      May 09, 2011 at 6:08 pm

      Usha, those cookies look fab! I love these kind of simple yet so yummy cookies!

      Reply
    4. Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal says

      May 09, 2011 at 3:41 pm

      Hi Usha, thanks for leaving comment on my blog. I hope you got that I used whole urad dal and not the white one that you use for idli. Just wanted to clarify 🙂

      Reply
    5. Vidhya Jayadeep says

      May 09, 2011 at 2:36 pm

      These cookies looks so delicious and melt in the mouth like.

      Reply
    6. Priya Mahadevan says

      May 08, 2011 at 8:58 pm

      Wow! These cooking look smashing delicious - buttery soft melt in the mouth kind!

      Reply
    7. Champa says

      May 08, 2011 at 4:32 pm

      I have seen this somewhere else too. But don't remember though. They look good. You could use lime juice instead of milk to get more limey (is that even a word?) cookies.

      Reply
      • MySpicyKitchen says

        May 08, 2011 at 4:45 pm

        That is a good idea, Champa. I did not even think about lime juice.. Will try it next time.

        Reply
    8. Harini-Jaya Rupanagudi says

      May 08, 2011 at 4:16 pm

      yummm..they look sinful to say the least!!

      Reply
    9. Priya says

      May 08, 2011 at 3:53 pm

      Cookies looks scrumptious..

      Reply
    10. Pavani says

      May 08, 2011 at 8:06 am

      Those look like super simple to make. Yummy cookies.

      Reply
    11. Divya Vikram says

      May 07, 2011 at 11:28 pm

      Lovely cookies 🙂

      Reply
    12. Hasna says

      May 07, 2011 at 10:44 pm

      thats a luvly pick usha...

      Reply

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