Key Lime Snowball Cookies

    I have been slacking in the blogging department! November was a very stressful month. It was mostly busy! Catering for the holidays in Dr. Phillips has been INSANE! (Insanely awesome!) Anyhow, I am back just in time for National Cookie Day! Over Thanksgiving, my family took a visit to The Showcase of Citrus in Clermont where we picked oranges, lemons, and key limes! I decided to turn some of the key limes that I brought home into some cooler cookies that will make an excellent addition to your holiday baking!

Key Lime Snowball Cookies

Ingredients:

- 1 cup of softened butter

- 2 and 1/2 cups of powdered sugar, divided

- 1/4 cup of key lime juice

- 2 teaspoons of key lime zest

- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

- 1 egg yolk

- 3 cups of flour

- 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

- 1/4 teaspoon of salt

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whip together the butter and 1 cup of the powdered sugar until light and fluffy. Next, mix in the lime juice, zest, vanilla, and egg yolk until combined. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Gently mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients in 3 increments. The dough will be on the dry side, press together to form a large ball. Pack cookie dough into a small cookie scoop and scoop cookies out onto a greased cookie sheet. If you don't have a scoop, you can form the dough into 1 inch balls. Bake for 15 minutes. Once the bottoms of the cookies have begun to turn golden, remove them from the oven and immediately toss in the remaining powdered sugar. Let cool (or not) and enjoy! 

Citrus picking with my family!!