Chocolate, Lime, Coconut Ice Box Butter Cookies

I didn't do a super great job of taking photos as I went with this one. I was too busy thinking about eating the finished product! The cookie dough needs to chill for 8 hours (or overnight) before you can make the cookies so you have to have a little patience. The dough will harden and is much easier to work with. It was a bit of an experiment. I had never made this before. This recipe will make about 3 to 4 dozen cookies depending on the size of your cookie. This can be doubled or cut in half! 

Beat together 1/2 cup softened butter, 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar, 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar, and 1/2 tbsp vanilla. This can be done in your stand mixer of with your hand mixer. 

Mix until incorporated. Add one egg and mix just until blended.

In a small bowl, add just under 2 cups flour, 1/4 tsp salt, and 1/4 tsp baking powder. Slowly incorporate this into your butter mixture beating just until blended with each addition.

Here, you have a choice, you can add in your goodies at this point, or you can add them in later. The dough will need to sit in the fridge for 8 hours (or overnight) from here. I added my goodies in the next day. I put my dough into a Ziploc bag, set it in the fridge, and the next day, I took it out, put it back in my mixer, added the zest of one lime, two squares of Ghirardelli milk chocolate, two squares of Ghirardelli white chocolate, 1/4 cup coconut, and 1/4 cup macadamia nuts. Mix together with the paddle attachment. With slightly wet hands, form the dough into cookies on a parchment paper covered baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. 

Before the oven

 Let cookies cool completely before packing them up. 

After the oven

Eat me!

If you don't like my goodies, you could do chocolate chunks and peanuts, roasted peanuts and chocolate chunks, lemon zest and fresh basil, instant coffee and chocolate covered toffee, roasted pecans and toffee, peanut butter chips and milk chocolate chips, I can go one and on with the combinations. 

Chocolate, Lime, Coconut Ice Box Butter Cookies

1/2 cup softened butter
1 1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 tbsp vanilla
1 egg
Just under 2 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder

Beat together 1/2 cup softened butter, 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar, 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar, and 1/2 tbsp vanilla. This can be done in your stand mixer of with your hand mixer. Mix until incorporated. Add one egg and mix just until blended. In a small bowl, add just under 2 cups flour, 1/4 tsp salt, and 1/4 tsp baking powder. Slowly incorporate this into your butter mixture beating just until blended with each addition. Put dough into a ziplock bag or wrap with saran wrap and let chill for 8 hours or overnight. Add any goodies you like to the dough and mix together with hands or with the paddle attachment of a stand mixer. I would use about 1/4 cup of each extra something that you add to this recipe. With slightly wet hands, form the dough into cookies on a parchment paper covered baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Try not to eat them all! 

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