Key Lime Pie Cookies
If you love the sweet and tangy flavors of key lime pie you'll love our key lime cookie recipe! A sweet graham cracker cookie topped with lime buttercream. Don't forget to squeeze extra lime juice over the cookie before eating it---it's the best part!
Servings 22 cookies
Calories 222kcal
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 Tbsp. milk
- 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 3/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
LIME BUTTERCREAM
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 Tbsp. lime zest
- 1/4 cup lime juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cover cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Cream butter and sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer or mix in large mixing bowl with an electric hand mixer. Mix in egg. Add vanilla and milk.
- Add dry ingredients.
- Scoop dough (using a medium cookie scoop) onto parchment paper-lined cookie sheets and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Let cookies cool for 5 minutes before transferring to wire racks.
- Beat frosting ingredients together and spread frosting over cookies.
- Add a small lime wedge to the top of each cookie.
- Squeeze lime juice over cookies before eating.
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Notes
- I use my stand mixer with the paddle attachment to make cookies, but you can use a hand-held electric mixer as well.
- You can use storebought graham cracker crumbs (found in the baking aisle next to graham cracker crumb pie crusts) or place a couple of sleeves of broken graham crackers into a blender of food processor and pulse until finely ground. I’ve done both methods and the cookies turn out the same.
- This recipe makes 22 cookies that can be stored at room temperature or chilled in the fridge. Store in an airtight container or cover in plastic.
Nutrition
Calories: 222kcal