Lime-Cornmeal Cookies

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Total Time
10 Hours
Yield
Makes about 2 1/2 dozen
By Lanny P. Lancarte II and Lanny P. Lancarte II
January 2011
RECIPE BY Southern Living

Don't skip the chill time after mixing or the dough will be too soft to shape into a log.

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup plain yellow cornmeal
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tablespoon lime zest
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Wax paper

How to Make It

Step 1

Combine flour and cornmeal. Beat butter and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg and next 3 ingredients, beating until blended. Gradually add flour mixture, beating just until blended after each addition. Cover and chill dough 1 hour.

Step 2

Shape dough into a 12-inch log using wax paper. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap, and chill 8 hours.

Step 3

Preheat oven to 375°. Cut log into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake 12 minutes or until set. Transfer to wire racks; cool completely (about 15 minutes).

Step 4

Try This Twist!

Step 5

Chocolate-Orange Cornmeal Cookies: Substitute orange zest and fresh orange juice for lime zest and juice. Drizzle 1/4 cup melted semisweet chocolate morsels over cooled cookies.

Lanny's Alta Cocina Mexicana, Fort Worth, Texas

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Ratings & Reviews

dogloo122's Review

dogloo122
July 31, 2011
This cookie recipe is terrible. I was surprised there was no leavening in it at all, no baking soda or baking powder or even any salt, but I made it exactly according to the instructions and the result was inedible. Rock-hard, dry discs that I could hardly pry up off the cookie sheet, they tasted like lime-flavored dog biscuits. I threw the whole mess out.