Cornmeal Lime Cookies

Total Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 4 teaspoons lime zest (roughly 6 limes)
• 2 tablespoons lime juice (roughly 6 limes)
• 2 teaspoons orange zest (roughly 2 oranges)
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 cup yeallow cornmeal, plus more for coating glass
• 3 1/4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
• 8 tablespoons lime juice
• 2 1/2 teaspoons lime zest

Recipe

• 1 cream butter and sugar 3-4 minutes.
• 2 add egg and beat until just combined.
• 3 add zests, lime juice and extract.
• 4 add flour and cornmeal and mix until well blended.
• 5 cover with waxed paper or plastic wrap.
• 6 form into a disc (why? beats me) and chill, at least, 1 hour.
• 7 roll heaping teaspoons of dough into balls and place on baking stones (or lined baking sheets) 3" apart.
• 8 dip bottom of a medium drinking glass into a bowl filled with the cornmeal and flatten balls with the bottom of the glass until dough is 1/4" thick.
• 9 bake cookies at 350 until golden brown around the edges, about 14-16 minutes.
• 10 when cookies cool pour lime glaze (mix ingredients together) over them.
• 11 let glaze set.
• 12 devour.