Lime Sugar Cookies – Easy Recipe for St. Patrick’s Day

If you’re looking for a bright, cheerful treat to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, these Lime Sugar Cookies are just what you need! Soft, sweet, and bursting with fresh citrus flavor, they’re a fun twist on classic sugar cookies — with a pop of green that’s perfect for the holiday.

This easy recipe comes together with simple pantry ingredients and is great for baking with kids, classroom parties, or festive family gatherings. The hint of lime adds a refreshing flavor that makes these cookies stand out from traditional St. Patrick’s Day desserts, while still keeping that soft, buttery texture everyone loves.

Whether you’re planning a party spread, putting together treat boxes, or just want something fun and festive to enjoy at home, these Lime Sugar Cookies (an adaptation from the lemon sugar cookies in Dorie’s Cookies Cookbook) are a delicious way to celebrate the luck of the Irish!

 

Lime Sugar Cookies

makes 6 dozen small cookies

• 2 3/4 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 2 limes
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into chunks
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 large egg, at room temperature
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

assorted colored sanding sugars:  I used a mix of green, yellow and gold

• Preheat oven to 350. Set rack to middle third of oven.
• Line baking sheets with parchment
• Whisk the flour, baking soda and baking powder together in a medium bowl
• Zest the limes and thenjuice them. Set the zest and juice aside. Make sure you have 1/4 cup of juice
• Add the sugar and zest to the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix with the paddle until the oils release and the fragrance rises.
• Add the butter and salt and beat on medium for two minutes.
• Add the egg, then the vanilla and mix until well combined.
• Add in half of the dry ingredients and mix until blended. Stir down with a spatula. Then add in the remaining dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
• In a small bowl mix together the sanding sugars. If you don’t have sanding sugar just use granulated sugar.

• Using a small scoop (about a teaspoon) drop balls of dough into the sugar to coat. Roll the dough into balls making sure they are coated with the sugars.

• Place on the cookie sheet about 2″ apart as this dough will spread.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 8 – 10 minutes until the cookies are set.
• Cool on a wire rack.

How Were the Lime Sugar Cookies?

The lime sugar cookies are really a lovely little treat. They aren’t too sweet and offer just enough to satisfy as a dessert in my opinion. I like the lime flavor and it does come through in the cookie. The selection I am sending in with the hubby includes three different cookies.

I wanted to offer the attendees their choice of flavors so there are the lime sugar cookies, chocolate malted cookies and brown butter sugar cookies. I’ll be sharing the other recipes later this week. Hopefully people will like them.

Here are some other festive St. Patrick’s Day recipes to try!

• Mini Shamrock Pizzas
• Lucky Charms Cookies
• Rainbow cupcakes
• No-Bake Green Caterpillar Twinkie Dessert
• Shamrock Pretzel Pops
• White Chocolate Hot Cocoa Bombs
• Peppermint Schnapps Hot Chocolate Bombs
• Irish Cream Liqueur Hot Cocoa Bombs
• Luck of the Irish Bark