Gluten-Free Lime Meltaways
Hi Bakers! There used to be a cookie called Lemon Coolers that I loved when I was a kid. It was like a powdered sugar-covered Nilla wafer with lemon flavor. I ate a lot of these and I was usually a sugar-covered mess when I was done. This is not the cookie you can sneak eat in the pantry…the sugar gives you away every time! Now is your chance to try and love another beautiful citrus-flavored shortbread. These cookies are easy to make and hard to screw up! I love giving them away during the Winter holidays when they stand out in a sea of gingerbread and fudge! They are just as tasty in Summer with a bowl of fresh fruit or ice cream! I hope you make and enjoy these time and again like I do! - Carolyn
Gluten-Free Lime Meltaways
Adapted from the recipe by Martha Stewart. This recipe was modified for gluten-free by changing the flour, adding sweet rice flour (for a bit more wheat flour feel), decreasing the butter by a tablespoon, and omitting the cornstarch since the blend of flour I love already contains it.
Dry
1 3/4 cups plus 4 Tablespoons Cup4Cup Multipurpose flour
1 teaspoon Sweet Rice Flour
1/4 Teaspoon salt
3/4 cup minus 1 Tablespoon softened butter
1 cup confectioners sugar
3 tablespoons lime juice
The zest of two limes
Whisk dry ingredients together in a bowl and set aside. Cream butter and sugar in a medium-sized bowl until light and fluffy. Add lime juice and zest and mix thoroughly. Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Divide into two balls and roll into logs about 1.5 inches in diameter on pieces of parchment. Roll them up in paper and chill for at least one hour or freeze them if you want to bake them later.
Preheat oven to 350F. Slice chilled logs into coin shapes about 1/8 inch thick and bake on parchment paper cut side down and one inch apart. Bake for about 12-14 minutes or until coins are barely browned but firm in the middle. Cool on a rack for 8 minutes and then roll or shake in powdered sugar while still warm. Return to the rack to cool fully. I like to stack my cooled cookies in muffin cups which seems to keep them from breaking and is a much easier way to store them. Enjoy!
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