Coconut Lime Sugar Cookies
These Coconut Lime Sugar Cookies are BEYOND delicious! They have such a subtle yet perfect sweet and citrusy flavor that is perfect anytime of year!
I recently went to this DELICIOUS cookie shop called Twisted Sugar Cookies. Their cookie menu is INSANELY delicious! They have several cookies that I created copy cats for that I can’t wait to share with you, but first up is their classic “Twisted Sugar” cookie. It is a coconut lime sugar cookie and it is FAN-TASTIC!
They are all about their frostings for the flavor, but I decided I wanted to add some lime flavor to my sugar cookie base to add just a bit more citrus goodness to the taste.
The Coconut Lime frosting is OUT OF THIS WORLD! Seriously. Coconut and Lime were made for each other and these cookies could not be any more yummy!
Coconut Lime Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 2 Tablespoons lime juice
- 2 eggs
- 5 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup sugar for rolling
Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons coconut extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons lime juice
- 5 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- sliced limes for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl cream together butter, oil, sugar and powdered sugar.
- Add lime juice and eggs and beat again.
- Add flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt and mix until it comes together. Do not over mix.
- Roll dough into 1 inch balls and then roll them in the 1/3 cup of reserved sugar and place onto the cookie sheets. (9 balls per sheet.)
- Spray a glass drinking glass with vegetable spray and then dip it into the sugar.
- Press the glass into each ball and twist to make a rough edge. (Don't go too deep, you still want a nice thick cookie.)
- Bake for 8-9 minutes until cookie looks cooked but not brown. You want these to seem a little under-done for a soft cookie. Get it too crispy and it won't have the same delicious melt in your mouth effect.
Frosting
- Mix all of the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and beat until creamy and smooth.
- Frost each cookie and garnish with a lime wedge.
Nutrition
Enjoy!
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Marsha | Marsha's Baking Addiction
These cookies look so perfect! A great summer recipe!
Laura
First I would like to say I LOVE this blog and have made a ton of your desserts and they are always the hit of the party! I think this recipe must have something missing. How do you not need any eggs?! Then 5 cups of flour?! You also do not mention when to add the vegetable oil. I added a few eggs to try and salvage this floury mixture so that I could form a dough. Hoping for the best.
Chef in Training
OH my goodness! I apologize. I was out of town so didn't see your comment until now. Yes it has 2 eggs. i forgot to type that in when I posted the recipe. My HUGE mistake. Thanks for catching that!
Afton
Vegetable oil is not mentioned in the instructions. I ended up adding a lot more to get it to not be completely crumbly. The cookies were delicious, and sweet enough even before the frosting.
Afton
Perhaps it could use a couple eggs.
Chef in Training
OH my goodness! I apologize. I was out of town so didn't see your comment until now. Yes it has 2 eggs. i forgot to type that in when I posted the recipe. My HUGE mistake. Thanks for catching that!
Rashmi Pandit
Coconut cookies have always been my favorite and now kiddo's too. I have learned to make it at home but one with lemon flavor sounds so much more yummy. Gonna give it a try this weekend. Thanks for this amazing recipe.
Salen
These cookies are awesome! The instructions don't include when to add the oil. I just added it with the wet ingredients.
Shellie
I'm confused about the 3/4 cup oil? Is that to replace eggs?
Courtney
This looks AMAZING! How many does the recipe yield?
Courtney
Follow-up: I made these and they were AMAZING. My office went crazy for them! The recipe ended up yielding about 60(!) cookies for me.
Alyssa Rampton
Nowhere in your instructions does it mention when and where you include the vegetable oil mentioned in the ingredients. Please update!
Lucy
Honestly these are horrible. No offense. I go to twisted sugar once a week to get me and my family cookies and our favorite is the twisted. So I found this on Pinterest and so badly wanted these to taste the same and they are nothing alike. The cookies were crumbly and the frosting was runny. Guess I will have to continue to spend $2 a cookie cause there is no recipe out there like twisted sugars cookies. I threw everything away. Not even my 3 year old daughter would eat these.
Ashley
When do you add the 3/4 Cup of oil?
Bruna
These cookies look so delicious! I'm Brazilian and we don't really have a "cookie culture" like in the US, but my husband asked me to bake some a couple of times now, and I'm so glad I came across your recipe! Trying them this weekend!! Thank you, Nikki!