Lime Meltaways (Pg 121)

I've had some challenges with these cookies that are shaped into logs and sliced. See Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C. I guess they don't look all that bad, but I'm a perfectionist and I'm bothered that they are not perfectly round. The dough, while it's sitting in the fridge, gets flat on the bottom. One recipe says to put the dough in a paper towel tube. That helped, but then as you're slicing it the bottom gets flat. One recipe said to continually roll it while you're slicing it, after you slice a few cookies, so it doesn't do that. That helps. But still none of them are perfect, and that bothers me.

So I thought I'd trick the dough this time by not even trying to make it round. I tried to make it a rectangle. That worked until I tried to slice the cookies. I guess the rectangle was too long and each cookie fell apart right down the middle. Foiled again.

So I went to the other go-to method: roll the dough in balls! I rolled a bit into a ball and flattened it with my palm. Viola! They look like little buttons. Aren't they precious?

They are very small. I guess they're nice little tea cookies or something like that. My Mom nicknamed them "Fairy Cookies" which is very fitting. They're little and delicate and sweet. I'm usually not a big fan of the little delicate cookies but these were really good. They're almost shortbread-y in texture so they're still really rich, what with all the butter. Butter makes everything better, obviously.

They're coated in confectioner's sugar while they're still warm so they have that nice snowy coating. The lime is not overwhelming. It just adds a nice little tang to the sweetness. I like these a lot.

Yield:

Recipe predicted: 5 dozen.
Actual: 5 dozen plus 2.


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