Lime-Glazed Coconut Snowballs

Name: Lime-Glazed Coconut Snowballs
Yield: Makes about 40 cookies
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon, grated lime zest; 2 1/2 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (12 1/2 ounces; 354 grams); 3/4 cup, superfine sugar (5 1/2 ounces; 156 grams); 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter (2 sticks), cut into sixteen 1/2-inch pieces, at cool room temperature (about 65 degrees); 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 2 tablespoons, cream cheese, at room temperature; 1 tablespoon, cream cheese, at room temperature; 3 tablespoons, lime juice; 1 1/2 cups, confectioners' sugar (6 ounces; 170 grams); 1 1/2 cups, sweetened shredded coconut, pulsed in food processor until finely chopped, about fifteen 1-second pulses

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2003

Desserts or Baked Goods

Rolling out cookie dough is a sticky business. Most recipes add excess flour, and the resulting cookies are tough. Could we make tender, crispy cookies that roll out easily?

SERVESMakes about 40 cookies

TIME1 hour, plus 20 minutes cooling and 20 minutes setting

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

In our search for a holiday cookie recipe that would yield cookies sturdy enough to decorate yet tender enough to eat, we started with the fat and found the right amount of butter to give the cookies great flavor without making them greasy....

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