Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, key lime jewel cookies. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Key Lime Jewel Cookies is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Key Lime Jewel Cookies is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook key lime jewel cookies using 14 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Key Lime Jewel Cookies:
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups flour
- Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
- Get 1 tbsp key lime zest
- Prepare 1 cup butter, softened
- Make ready 3 /4 cup sugar
- Make ready 2 egg yolks
- Prepare 1 tsp almond extract
- Make ready 5 tbsp key lime juice
- Get 1 tbsp water
- Get 6 drops green food coloring
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups pine nuts, chopped
- Prepare 2/3 cup seedless raspberry preserves
- Take 1/2 cup powdered sugar, for dusting
Instructions to make Key Lime Jewel Cookies:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl mix the flour, baking powder, salt, and lime zest; set aside.
- In a large bowl cream the butter and sugar together.
- Add the egg yolks, and combine well.
- Next, mix in the almond extract, and the lime juice.
- Gradually add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients, and mix well.
- Add the water to make the dough come together more easily.
- Add the green food coloring and work through the dough to get even color.
- Lay the chopped pine nuts out in one layer on a plate.
- Pinch off chunks of the dough and roll them between your hands to form 1 inch balls.
- Roll the dough balls in the pine nuts to get them evenly coated, and then place them on parchment paper lined baking sheets.
- Take your index finger and make an indent into the middle of each dough ball.
- Carefully drop 1 teaspoon of the raspberry preserves into each indent on your cookies.
- Bake for about 35 minutes, or when the pine nuts start to lightly brown on the edges.(Your cookies may bake quicker, my oven is not the best, just use your best judgement folks).
- Let the cookies cool on the cookie sheets for a couple minutes.
- Then transfer the cookies to cooling racks to cool completely before lightly dusting them with the powdered sugar. Enjoy!
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