Martha's Cookie Week: Lime Meltaways

by Bob Sassone, Posted Mar 11th 2008 @ 10:57AM

Lime Meltaways This week, Martha Stewart is doing a "Cookie Week" on her show. We recently did an entire Cookie Month, but I guess that's harder to do on a syndicated TV show without taking up too much time.

I'll post the recipes for each day's cookies (I thought she was originally supposed to start the week of recipes yesterday but it actually started today). First up, these Lime Meltaways.

Lime Meltaways

3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup confectioners' sugar
Finely grated zest of 2 limes
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
1 ¾ cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons cornstarch
¼ teaspoon coarse salt

Put butter and 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, and mix on medium speed until pale and fluffy. Add lime zest and juice and vanilla, and mix until fluffy.

Whisk together flour, cornstarch, and salt in a bowl. Add to butter mixture, and mix on low speed until just combined.

Divide dough in half. Place each half on an 8-by-12-inch sheet of parchment paper. Roll in parchment to form a log 1 ¼ inches in diameter, pressing a ruler along edge of parchment at each turn to narrow log. Refrigerate logs until cold and firm, at least 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove parchment from logs; cut into ¼-inch-thick rounds. Space rounds 1 inch apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Bake cookies until barely golden, about 13 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool slightly, 8 to 10 minutes. While still warm, toss cookies with remaining 2/3 cup sugar in a resealable plastic bag. Cookies can be stored in airtight containers at room temperature up to 2 weeks.

Filed Under: Television/Film, Ingredients
Tags: cookie week, cookies, fruit, lime meltaways, martha stewart

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Reader comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-11-2008 @8:51PM badfrog said... My mother in law makes these, and also lemon and orange meltaways. They are amazing. She tried grapefruit once, but it wasn't so great.

These disappear quickly, to the point that we have to give the children their own because they hoard them like hamsters. Well, not in their cheeks.
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