Check out these Lucky Lime Leprechaun Cookies for St. Patrick’s Day! They are soft, sweet, and green with a light lime-y flavor and tart icing! Yum!

Looking for a fun, yet easy cookie for St. Patrick’s Day? These Lucky Lime Leprechaun Cookies are so easy to make! This makes about 4 dozen, I think…I had a really hard time keeping my kids out of the cookie dough while I was making these. Every time I turned around they snitched some cookie dough. These cookies are soft and a fun green color. The light lime flavored cookies are accented by a tart lime icing drizzled on the top. Hope you like them! And don’t forget to try my Gold Coin Butter Cookies!

How to make these cute St. Patrick’s day cookies:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Prepare baking sheets by spraying with non-stick cooking spray or lining pan with parchment paper.
In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and powdered sugar.
Beat in the eggs, lime extract and a few drops of green food coloring. Remember that the flour with lighten the color.
Beat in the baking soda.
Add the flour in 3 additions alternating with the limeade.
Scoop dough out onto the prepared baking sheets by tablespoonfuls. Bake at 400 degrees for 8 minutes. Don’t over bake.
While the cookies are baking stir enough of the remaining limeade into the 2 cups of powdered sugar to make a drizzly icing.
Drizzle cooled cookies with the lime icing. Enjoy!

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Lucky Lime Leprechaun Cookies Recipe

Author: Mindee
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 8 minutes (per batch)
Total Time: 18 minutes
Yield: 4 Dozen Cookies 1x
Category: Cookies
Method: Baking
Cuisine: American

Description

Check out these fun cookies for St. Patrick’s Day! They are soft, sweet, and green with a light lime-y flavor and tart icing! Yum!

Scale

Ingredients

1 Cup Butter (room temp.)
1 1/2 Cups Powdered Sugar
2 Eggs
1 tsp Lime Extract
Green Food Coloring
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/3 Cup Limeade
3 Cups Flour

Lime Icing

2 Cups Powdered Sugar
Limeade

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Prepare baking sheets by spraying with non-stick cooking spray or lining pan with parchment paper.
In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and powdered sugar.
Beat in the eggs, lime extract and a few drops of green food coloring. Remember that the flour with lighten the color.
Beat in the baking soda.
Add the flour in 3 additions alternating with the limeade.
Scoop dough out onto the prepared baking sheets by tablespoonfuls. Bake at 400 degrees for 8 minutes. Don’t overbake.
While the cookies are baking stir enough of the remaining limeade into the 2 cups of powdered sugar to make a drizzly icing.
Drizzle cooled cookies with the lime icing. Enjoy!

Keywords: Saint Patrick's Day, Lime Cookies

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Last Updated on March 5, 2020