If you are coming over from The Leatherneck Mom and her decadent recipe for Double-Chocolate Peppermint Brownies, welcome!
I do love a good cookie. Sugar cookies are so easy to make, and so good to eat! The coconut gives this cookie an extra kick, and the lime essential oil gives it a nice, fresh flavor. Let me just say, these will melt in your mouth. Yes, they are that good!
In my usual fashion, I enjoy tweaking to suit myself, so I took the classic sugar cookie recipe from Pillsbury and put my own twist on it. I changed the salt amount to ¼ tsp (because I was using unsalted butter… if you are using salted butter, you might keep it at ⅛ tsp), added some toasted coconut, and Young Living’s Lime Vitality essential oil.
Coconut Lime Sugar Cookies
3 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
1 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1½ cups granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 drops Lime Vitality essential oil or 2-3 Tbsp Lime juice
½ cup toasted coconut (optional)
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Using a mixer, beat butter and sugar until smooth and fluffy. Then, beat in eggs, vanilla, and Lime Vitality essential oil. In a separate bowl, whisk flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Mix in the toasted coconut, if you are using it. One cup at a time, carefully add the dry ingredients to the wet.
Roll rounded cookies in a bit of extra granulated sugar, and then carefully drop onto parchment paper-covered cookie sheets and bake for 8 – 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Let baked cookies sit on the cookie sheet for a minute or two and them move to wire cooling racks.
This is some serious yum.
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Thank you for this recipe! Coconut and lime are two of my favorite flavors. Good to know I’m not the only one who constantly tweaks recipes. Your pics are beautiful, too! Thanks, again.
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Could you substitute lime juice? If so how much would you recommend? Thanks! And can’t wait to try this recipe!
Sure! I would use 2 or 3 Tbsp in place of the eo.
Could you replace coconut oil instead of the butter?
I’m sure you could, Shanette! I often sub coconut oil in place of butter or other oils in many recipes.
This looks very yummy. However, I am confused. It seems in the instructions that you add the eggs twice and don’t put any sugar in the dough. Is that correct or should I be mixing the butter and sugar in the first step?
Hi Sonja! Oh my goodeness, you are so right! Thank you for catching that! SUGAR and butter, then eggs, vanilla, and Lime Vitality. So sorry for the confusion! I am updating the post. Thanks again! – Amy