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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PrintLucky Lime Leprechaun Cookies Recipe
- 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!
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter (room temp.)
- 1 ½ cups Powdered Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tsp Lime Extract
- Green Food Coloring
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- ⅓ 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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Greg
Fun great cookies!! The kids love them for St. Patrick's day.
★★★★★
Kelly | Foodtasia
Mindee, these are so cute! And I love lime! Great recipe!
mindeescookingobsession
Thank you!