Are you a lime lover? If so, look no further because this is one amazing cookie. It’s sweet, soft, chewy, limey and amazing.
Lime flavored treats are a summer staple in my house, I love the fresh, crisp flavor it imparts to both desserts and savory dishes. When I had my Hip Hostess giveaway last month, a reader left me a link to these cookies. Out of over 500 comments, this recipe stood out in my mind, so I immediately bookmarked it! Well, I am glad I did, because they are simple and brilliant!
I actually followed this recipe exactly as written which is rare for me, but it honestly looked perfect. The coconut adds a slight textural element and it marries perfectly with the tartness of the lime and the sweetness of the sugar. Brian’s co-workers loved these cookies and this recipe compelled my friend, Jo to leave me a love note on my desk after I brought one to work for her. I am definitely going to play around with this recipe using other citrus fruits…think oranges, lemons and grapefruit! Now wipe the drool from your mouth and make them, eat them, and love them! Have a great weekend and thanks so much for checking out this fabulous recipe! [/donotprint]
Chewy Lime Sugar Cookies
Ingredients:
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Zest of one large lime, finely minced
3 tbsp lime juice
½ cup unsweetened toasted coconut
1/2 cup sugar for rolling cookiesDirections:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
2. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
3. Using a mixer, beat together the butter and sugar until smooth and very fluffy.
4. Beat in egg, vanilla extract, lime juice and lime zest.
5. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients and toasted coconut.
6. Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and roll in sugar. Place on lined cookie sheets about 1 1/2 inches apart.
7. Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly browned.
8. Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.
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Ummm omg, yes please! I need to make these right now!!! I think I might be drooling over the keyboard! I love citrus cookies!!!!!!!
i’ve always enjoyed lemon-flecked sugar cookies — these sound equally as good. kind of like a simpler version of key lime pie. can’t wait to try.
cheers,
*heather*
These look amazing, super great for summer!
I will certainly be making these!!! YUM.
Oh. Yes. I am making these tomorrow. I love how I have all the ingredients already and the combo sounds delish. Plus, I get picky eaters to try them simply b/c they look like sugar cookies…SURPRISE! thanks for sharing
I love lime and I love coconut. And today I realized I love chewy sugar cookies, so I’m SO excited to make these. Out of the dozens, and dozens, and dozens of cookies I’ve made, I’ve somehow never made sugar cookies. This just moved to the top of my to bake list.
I love coconut and I love lime. I might have to try this with grapefruit. Looks amazing!
These cookie sounds fantastic, and how fitting… I just happened to bring home with me with a bag full of key limes from the market today.
Those just sound fabulous! Lime is by far my favorite citrus fruit.
those sound great. love the citrus and coconut combination. did you use fresh lime juice? i wasn’t sure if 1 lime (for the zest) would provide enough juice or not.
I’m bookmarking the recipe in my favorites file. Haven’t made them yet, but based on your review – and the fact that you didn’t change a thing — tells me that it must be one great cookie. I love lime (well, any citrus) and I like the idea of the coconut in them.
thanks for sharing this recipe! citric acid is one of my first loves (:
These are a perfect flavor combo for summer!!
Lime is such a great idea!! I can’t wait to try.
Love these! Thanks for sharing the recipe. I am sure they will be a new favorite!
I’m a sucker for anything lime…lime in coke, limeade over lemonade, lime bars (yes I’ve done that!). The addition of coconut seems a great touch; will have to try these.
okay. just reading your post made me wanna kill for a diet coke with lime. holy god. it’s been ages.
I have to make these soon! I just have to.
Chewy cookies are my favorite, and I love lime!
I love lime and coconut together! Great JOB!
These look so, so good. I’m making these tomorrow!
I always seem to have too many limes around, this recipe would be great to use them up!
These look fantastic! I had the cherry chocolate scones earmarked for today but now I don’t know what to do… surely the solution is to bake both!?
i’m definitely going to try these out!! looks absolutely so cute and sweet!!
These look high in sugar, but ever so delicious!
What timing! I just posted a lime bread recipe on my blog about 2 minutes ago. This weekend I bought a large bag of limes at Costco and have been trying to think of different things to make with them. I found a Trisha Yearwood lime cake recipe that I’m going to try on Tuesday and now I come across your terrific looking cookies! Yeah! Can’t wait to make them. Thanks for sharing.
These look absolutely terrific! Sweet, refreshing, delish. My favorite sugar cookie recipe has a good hit of lemon zest – citrus seems to take sugar cookies to a new dimension.
I’m glad I’m not the only person who uses the adjective “limey.”
These cookies look incredible!! Bookmarking this.
Wow, these look really good. I love lime… and in a cookie is a brilliant idea!
Put the lime in the coconut, perfect.
What a perfect match up! Love coconut and love lime!
I’ve been on a total lime bender as of late. It’s really a problem. These will fit the bill just fine!
Hi
You have a plate of thin cookies and a glass of milk displayed on your site. What kind of cookies are they.
Must bake!
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A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. I am wiping the drool from mouth keyboard. I can’t wait to make them!
Those look perfect with a cup of coffee!
Wow, I love sugar cookies, especially chewy ones, with the added lime these are probably heaven!
Drool….
Must make. Now. I’m already pre-heating the oven and I type this!
Thank you for sharing.
WOW those babies look divine! i might have to temporarily life my no-baking policy (i have a history of burnt baked goodies) and give’em a try!
These cookies look delicious! I love the white color!
Made these last night, love them! Think I’ll use even more lime next batch. Oh, by the way, this is the yummiest cookie dough ever, I’m surprised we had cookies!
Chris-
So glad you liked them…the dough is amazing isn’t it?!?
-Jamie
Making these tonight! Thanks for sharing what could possibly be my new favorite cookie! I LOVE lime!
I couldn’t wait. Made these tonight and they are my idea of the perfect cookie. Love the citrus flavor. And the coconut adds the chewiness I enjoy. Simply wonderful. However, there is one small problem–
I can’t stop eating them.
Please send help immediately.
those are gorgeous!
Hey, I just tried these out for a party and they were great! I loved the lime/coconut combination. Thanks for the post
These sound amazing! I love lime!
Hi, I’d like to make these for my fiance (who loves lime and sugar cookies), but he doesn’t like coconut. Do you think the recipe would turn out ok without the coconut, or should I substitute something else?
Amanda-
Thanks for commenting, they are delish even without the coconut!!
-Jamie
I made the cookies yesterday, and they are great!
I made these cookies yesterday & they are delicious!! Thanks for the awesome recipe!
I am planning to make these tomorrow and then another batch to take to our mothers day celebration. Am I missing where it tells me how many cookies the recipe makes or is it according to the size I roll them? Thanks
Toni G
Toni-
This recipe makes about 24-30 cookies depending on size. Enjoy!
-Jamie
I just made a batch of sugar cookies using this recipe (without the coconut) and it came out fantastic!
Thanks for the great recipe.
So I did make these for our Mother’s Day Celebration and they were a major hit! Young and old loved em and everyone wanted to know what the citrus flavor was and how I had thought of it. They are delicious and not too lime overpowering at all! I got almost 40 cookies out of the batter if I had just stopped eating the dough I would have gotten more. I made them small and they smelled great and I loved the toasted coconut addition in them. I’ll make them all summer! Very easy and very good.
I have a pile of these cookies just waiting for me to devour them. They are delicious! My husband and toddler love them too. Thanks for the great recipe and now I’m contemplating grapefruit as well.
These are just delicious! I made them for a picnic tomorrow, and I can’t wait to share. Thank you!
I made these over the weekend and they turned out great! They have been declared a favorite by my entire family.
I gave you full credit on my blog – -http://www.iblogwhatibake.com/
i literally JUST made these. i cut some of the sugar out because i only had sweetened coconut. i think i cut a litttle bit too much, but honestly, they are still good! they taste light, yet at the same time buttery and soft and delicious. definitely will make again!
We made these for a baby shower . They were soft, chewy and oh, so good. I really liked the fact that these tasted different than the usual cookie fare. They cooked up beautifully too as they held a nice round shape and were a pretty pale color. Yum!
I made these today to send to my husband who’s away at military training. They turned out so yummy and are so pretty! Thank you for the great recipe – what a wonderful combination. Mine got a little flat so they weren’t real chewy so maybe I did something wrong? What is the secret to cookies that don’t go flat? They were still delicious!
I’m with Michelle. I made them and loved the flavor, but they turned out pretty flat so not as chewy. I noticed my batter was pretty moist, so it was hard to roll it into balls…and that it got denser and easier to roll as I got to the end of the batch. Any ideas? Because I definitely want to make them again! Thanks for another great taste combination! ( I loved the fig balsamic kabobs, too!)
I made these yesterday and they were delicious! I might put more lime in next time even. So yummy! Thank you!
Barry here from Rock Recipes. Glad you guys had so much success with this recipe. It is an original idea my wife and I came up with that has proven to be very very popular with readers of my blog. Looks like it is pretty popular here too!
Hi! I made these cookies in the spring and they were wonderful! In preparing to make them again, I notice that the recipe doesn’t specify salted or unsalted butter; which did you use? I used unsalted the first time with great results, but I’m wondering if I should add more salt.
If you go to Cooks Illustrated,there is another recipe for the same cookie….but done a little differently with cream cheese and melted butter….
I just made these cookies, the dough tasted delicious, but I forgot to add the baking powder! *smh* So now it’s back to the store for more limes!
Just made them. Fresh out of the over. So tasty! Thanks for the amazing recipe
I made these this past weekend. they were delicious! I was wondering though….I’m really big on lime flavor and would like a stronger taste. If I were to also sprinkle lime zest on the cookie would that be too strong and would I need to do it before or after baking?
How many does this make? Thanks!
oh my word good …. I would have made a lot more if I didn’t eat half a dozen worth in raw dough
great recipe! 
Where are your coconut-lemon crinkle cookies?
I will be attending an annual cookie exchange in Chicago and plan to leave as this year’s big winner. I recently moved to Fl and figure I will dazzle the gals with your chewy lime/coconut cookie. I am not a baker and to be perfectly honest, not many in attendance are either, but it’s time to get serious. Before I get started, are there any tips for baking these cookies. I generally have to bake twice as much as I need do to failure. Also, any cute ideas for presentation? Remember, I’m looking for the best tasting or best presentation prize, not best kitchen disaster. Thanks for your help!
Hmm. What a peculiar comment above.
Anyway, these cookies are fantastic! Absolutely perfect. I live in Germany, where the flour is different and they don’t even have the same type of coconut. But their strange coconut flakes worked in these cookies and for any other people living in Germany, use half Type 550 and half Type 405. Thanks for sharing the recipe! We all really, really loved them.
I made these tonight and they turned out very well. I used lemon juice instead of lime. I like a tart cookie so I rolled some in Country Time Lemonade before baking and it gives them a nice zing. It does make it a little harder to get them off the cookie sheet because of the different sugar in the country time.
What if you sprinkled a tiny bit of the Country Time on top either before or right after the oven, instead of adding it into the dough? I wonder if it would burn on top… I just found the recipe and think that I will try the lemon version, too, with the lemonade mix as a “garnish” on the top.
Thanks for the recipe. I’ve made them twice now, the second time I increased the lime juice and didn’t toast the coconut. Also, I made logs out of the dough, stuck them in the freezer for 15 minutes or so, and then just sliced them and sprinkled them with sugar mixed with the zest. Made them not quite so sweet as rolling them in sugar.
These cookies were Awesome! I loved them and so did all of my friends! They came out a little thin though and yours are so pretty and thick…would chilling the dough help?
Just made the Chewy Lime Coconut Sugar Cookies. I changed the recipe a little…I added another large lime zest to give it more flavor. Other then that followed the recipe exactly and made 10 dz cookies. I will make these again and probably increase the amount of coconut as it was not very prevalent in the flavor. These will go great with homemade ice cream.
yum! I made these for a houseful of boys and to a “man” they agreed they were great. Thanks for the recipe!
I’m so glad to hear that you enjoyed these! Thanks so much for taking the time to report back – have a great day!
-Jamie
We had a lot of limes sitting around, until I made about 7 batches of this!!! Thanks so much!
Ben-
I hope you enjoyed the recipe as much as we did! These are one of my favorite cookies!
-Jamie
I made these tonight. Delicious and chewy. I doubled the coconut and the lime zest and the taste was still subtle. Taking them to a Jimmy Buffet concert.
Woooooooow slow down
Lemon & Lime cookies… thats fantabulouse and I have to try them out
Great cookies! IMHO it’s a lot of treacherous work to grate lime peel. But I’m oh, so glad I tried it for these cookies ….. well worth the effort.
I added lots of sweetened coconut – I have no idea where to get unsweetened.
Thanks so much for all the wonderful cookie recipes.
Nancy-
I am so happy to hear you enjoyed the recipe – thanks for stopping by and leaving your feedback! Have a great day.
-Jamie
I just found this recipe via pinterest a few days ago and made them tonight. What a nice light, sweet, lime cookie, perfect for after dinner. Thanks!
Raejean-
I’m so glad you enjoyed the recipe. Thanks for stopping by and providing your feedback!
-Jamie
These are easy and oh so delicous. I’m glad I found this recipe on Pintrest!
Rosemary-
I am so glad you enjoyed the recipe. Thanks so much for stopping by and providing your feedback – have a great day!
-Jamie
I baked up a batch of these cookies yesterday. They’re super tasty!
I’ve made these twice (after finding on Pinterest…)
1) I made without any lime or coconut. Basic sugar cookie. These are how I personally love sugar cookies…..chewy, a little crispy on the edges. I did put a full 3 cups of flour in, as I like mine a little more dense and they turned out great.
2)I made with lemon juice and zest and without coconut. This time I needed to use up some lemon cream cheese frosting and these cookies went perfect with it.
I’m going to try the actual lime recipe soon, this is a great base sugar cookie recipe to play with.
Oh, and I just baked on a dark, non-stick cookie sheet and they baked up just fine.
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