Brighten your vacation cookie tray with these tangy frosted fir tree which will doubtless be flecked with pistachios and flavored with lime juice and vanilla. The festive treats are nearly too moderately to eat! —Mary Ann Taday, East Lyme, Connecticut
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter, softened
- half cup sugar
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 2 teaspoons grated lime peel
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-3/4 cups all-blueprint flour
- 10 to 12 drops green food coloring
- 3/4 cup finely chopped pistachios
- Frosting:
- 1 kit (3 oz) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1 teaspoon lime juice
- Green colored sugar
Directions:
- In a colossal bowl, cream butter and sugar till gentle and fluffy. Beat in the lime zest, lime juice and vanilla. Step by step add flour and mix effectively. Beat in food coloring. Hotfoot in pistachios. Camouflage and refrigerate for 4 hours or till easy to address. On a evenly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Within the reduction of with a floured 2-half-in. tree-fashioned cookie cutter. Status 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for Eight-10 minutes or till space. Cool for five minutes before hunting down from pans to wire racks to chill fully. In a colossal bowl, mix confectioners’ sugar, water and meringue powder; beat on low escape truthful till blended. Beat on high 4-5 minutes or till stiff peaks bag. Divide in half; if desired, tint one share green. Withhold unused icing lined at all cases with a moist cloth. If well-known, beat all all over again on high escape to restore texture. Frost and decorate cookies as desired. Let stand at room temperature plenty of hours or till frosting is dry and firm. Store in an hermetic container. Yield: about 4 dozen.
- First and foremost published as Lime Christmas Tea Cookies in Nation Girl Christmas Annual 2004, p43
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