Best Pistachio Lime Cookies Recipes

CRANBERRY LIME PISTACHIO SHORTBREAD COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Using a mixer, cream margarine and sugar. Add flour till dough forms.
• Stir in cranberries, pistachios, zest, and juice.
• Let dough rest in fridge for a few minutes. To form cookies, roll 1 tablespoons dough into a ball, then flatten. Place on cookie sheet.
• Bake cookies for 11 minutes or till the bottoms are just turning golden and the tops look dry-ish. Cool on wire racks.

COCONUT, LIME AND PISTACHIO COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and lime juice. In another bowl, whisk flour, pudding mix, baking soda and baking powder; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Stir in pistachios and dried cranberries. With clean beaters, beat egg white on medium speed until thick and foamy; stir in coconut., Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Flatten slightly with bottom of a glass dipped in sugar. Top with coconut mixture. Bake until until edges begin to brown, 10-12 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool. Sprinkle with lime zest. Store in airtight containers.

PISTACHIO LIME COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a food processor work bowl, add sugar and lime zest. Process until sugar and zest are well mixed, about 20 seconds. Scrape into a large mixing bowl. Reserve about 1/2 cup of lime sugar in a separate bowl for later use.
• Add flour, baking powder and salt into food processor and pulse briefly to mix. Add cold butter into food processor with flour mixture and 3 ounces of the pistachios. Process with short pulses until mixture resembles cornmeal and no large lumps of butter remain, about 10 seconds. Add remaining pistachios and mix briefly, about 5 seconds. Pour this mixture into the sugar and lime mixture in the large mixing bowl and set aside.
• In a medium bowl, mix egg yolks, vanilla extract, almond extract, and lime juice together.
• Using an electric mixer with a paddle attachment, pour in the lime/sugar and flour/butter mixture and stir until combined, about 15 seconds. Then, while the mixer is still running, slowly add egg/lime juice mixture and mix until well combined and dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl, about 15 to 30 seconds.
• Scrape the dough into a large bowl and refrigerate until cold, but not solid, about 30 minutes. Use an ice cream scoop to scoop the dough onto parchment-lined cookie sheets. Take the dough balls and roll the tops into the reserved lime sugar. Use the bottom of a water glass to press the cookies flat, about 1/4-inch thick. Bake the cookies until slightly browned, about 15 minutes. Remove the parchment paper with the cookies from the tray to a cooling rack and cool.

LIME PISTACHIO COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar till fluffy.
• Beat in egg.
• Stir in flour and lime peel Mix in pistachio.
• Refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Roll into 1/4 inch thick and cut with cookie cutters.
• Place in ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake for 8 to 10 mins at 375F or till light brown.
• Ice as desired.
• Lime Icing: beat butter with powdered sugar,milk and lime peel till smooth.
• If frosting is too stiff,add in more milk.
• If too soft,add powdered sugar.
• Makes about 1 cup.

BASIL, LIME, AND PISTACHIO COOKIES

Steps:

• Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
• In large mixing bowl, beat butter at medium speed until light. Gradually beat in sugar; add the egg, vanilla, basil and zest, beating until very light and fluffy.
• At low speed, mix in the dry ingredients in three or four additions. Add chopped nuts.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide in half. Shape each half into a roll 6-7" long. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm (approx. 8 hours). (Rolled dough may also be frozen. Thaw frozen dough briefly before baking.).
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Cut the dough into 1/4" slices and place onto an ungreased baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Sprinkle lightly with coarse sugar.
• Bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Immediately remove from baking sheet and cool on a rack.