These Coconut Lime Sugar Cookies are a delicious taste of the tropics! These simple sugar cookies are flavored with coconut and lime zest, then topped with a sweet lime icing. A new favorite cookie!
Do you ever find yourself drawn to the same flavor combinations over and over again? Right around this time of year, EVERY year, I find myself craving coconut & lime. And can you blame me? We’ve endured nearly 4 months of winter and all we want is sun. And warmth. And anything that reminds us that there’s life outside of winter.
Honestly, we’re in the home stretch…I know it. A month from now, spring will be here and winter will almost seem like a distant memory. Almost. But until then, coconut+lime will have to suffice. And I must say….these Coconut Lime Sugar Cookies are doing a REALLY good job.
I don’t know about you, but for me, nothing beats a good sugar cookie. And these sugar cookies are AMAZING. Not just because of the coconut and lime, which clearly puts them over the edge….but because the cookies, themselves, are perfect! They’re soft and chewy and packed with delicious flavor, just like a sugar cookie should be.
Speaking of happy….these Coconut Lime Sugar Cookies are guaranteed to make you happy. Not just because they’re SO delicious, but because they’ll make you feel like you’re sitting on a beach, soaking up the sun, living the life. Or at least enjoying a really good Coconut Lime Sugar Cookie. Which, if you ask me, is a pretty good second.
Coconut Lime Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 14 Tablespoons unsalted butter softened
- 2 large eggs
- 1 Tablespoon coconut extract
- zest of 1 lime
Icing
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 2-3 Tablespoons lime juice
- zest of 1 lime
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a separate mixing bowl, combine granulated sugar and softened butter; cream mixture until light and fluffy, 4-6 minutes.
- Add eggs one at a time, then add coconut extract and lime zest, mixing until thoroughly combined.
- Gradually add in flour mixture and mix until thoroughly combined.
- Using 2 Tablespoons of dough at a time, roll into balls and place 2 inches apart on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Flatten each dough ball with the bottom of a glass to 2 inches in diameter.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 14 minutes, rotating pan halfway through.
- Remove from oven and cool on baking sheet 10 minutes, then remove to wire rack to cool completely.
- Once cool, prepare icing by combining powdered sugar with 2 Tablespoons lime juice. Slowly add more lime juice until desired consistency is reached. Stir in lime zest; spoon onto cookies as desired.
Nutrition
For another great cookies recipe, try my Samoa Chocolate Chip Cookie
Love the flavor combo! I want to bite into one (okay a few) of these cookies right now!
Oooh, the texture of those cookies looks perfect, and I love the lime-coconut flavor combo!
LOVELY cookies! I’m pretty sure I’ll be craving these until I make them!
These look amazing! What a delicious cookie to erase the memory of this Winter! Or at least catapult us into April!
Oh yum!! These cookies are SO lovely!! I think I can eat all of them on my own!!
These look amazing! I love lime cookies so this recipe is definitely a must-try!
I’d have to eat one, and give the rest of them away. I would do some serious damage to these cookies!
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These sound so incredible! Love the flavor combination!
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Recipe doesn’t say when to add flour mixture in. Most will be able to figure it out, but probably shoild add it.
Thanks for the heads up. The recipe has been updated!
Made these today – flavorful! I only used 1 cup of sugar even though the recipe calls for 1.5 cups but cookies were sweet enough with only 1 cup (at least for me) – would likely reduce sugar more another time and add more zest to the dough. Cookies are tasty even without the icing.
This seems like a perfect combination of flavors but has anyone tried a different profile?
Just checking – there is no shredded toasted coconut in these cookies? I noticed it in the picture above, so justwondered if you used it for garnish or in the cookies? Thank you! Cant wait to make these.
Correct, No toasted coconut in the actual cookies, it was in the pic for garnish!
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