Key Lime Stars

Name: Key Lime Stars
Prep time: 2 h 40 min
Cook time: 2 h 40 min
Total time: 2 h 40 min
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons baking powder; 237 milliliters butter, softened; 532 milliliters all-purpose flour; 2 Tbsps Key lime juice; 1 Tbsp Key lime zest; 1 Tbsp lime zest; 177 milliliters powdered sugar; 0 teaspoons salt; 2 Tbsps white sanding sugar; 5 servings Wax and parchment paper

Key Lime Stars is a vegetarian side dish. One serving contains 622 calories, 6g of protein, and 37g of fat. This recipe serves 5. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have wax and parchment paper, lime zest, powdered sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 2 hours and 40 minutes.

Instructions

Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until smooth. Stir in 1 Tbsp. Key lime zest and juice until blended.

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Lime Zest

Butter

Juice

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Stir together flour and next 2 ingredients. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, beating at low speed until blended.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

Divide dough in half; flatten each into a disk.

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Dough

Roll each disk to 1/4-inch thickness between 2 sheets of wax paper.

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Roll

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Wax Paper

Transfer dough, in wax paper, to a baking sheet; chill 1 hour.

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Dough

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Baking Sheet

Wax Paper

Preheat oven to 35

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Oven

Working with 1 portion of dough at a time, remove top wax paper; cut with a 2-inch star-shaped cutter, rerolling dough scraps once.

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Dough

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Wax Paper

Place 1 inch apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Stir together white sanding sugar and 1 Tbsp. lime zest.

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Sanding Sugar

Lime Zest

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Sprinkle cookies with sugar mixture, pressing gently to adhere.

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Sugar

Bake at 350 for 14 to 16 minutes or until tips of stars just begin to brown. Cool on baking sheets 1 minute; transfer to wire racks. Cool completely. Store in airtight containers.

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Baking Sheet

Oven