Easy Shortbread Cookies (Lime Squiggles) with Claire Saffitz | Dessert Person
These cookies are a style of shortbread called meltaways, so named because the addition of cornstarch to the buttery dough reduces gluten development and makes them melt-in-your-mouth tender. Aside from the cornstarch, though, these are not typical meltaways. I supplement the butter with cream cheese, which adds extra tang on top of the lime juice and zest, andI coat the finished cookie in a lime glaze rather than the usual confectioner's sugar. Follow along to make these easy Shortbread Lime Squiggle Cookies.
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Ingredients:
DOUGH
1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour (7 oz / 200g)
1⁄4 cup cornstarch (1.1 oz / 32g)
3⁄4 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt or 1⁄2 teaspoon Morton kosher salt
1 stick unsalted butter (4 oz / 113g), at room temperature
4 ounces (113g) cream cheese, at room temperature
3⁄4 cup confectioners’ sugar (2.9 oz / 83g)
2 teaspoons finely grated lime zest
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
GLAZE
1 cup confectioners’ sugar (3.9 oz / 110g), sifted if lumpy
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
1 lime, for zesting
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