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Key Lime Cookies

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With spring in the air, there’s nothing quite like citrus desserts in your mouth. Lemon meringue pie, lemon bars, orange smoothies, and key lime pie! This time, I’ve taken key lime cake mix from Pillsbury and turned it into frosted key lime cookies. Since they were still a little tart for me, I slathered some vanilla marshmallow frosting on top.

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Didn’t these cookies turn out beautiful? Best part about it is that you only need four ingredients (and that’s including the frosting)! I could see them on the table next to your BBQ dish or on a plate outside for guests at a pool party. If you want them to be a more vibrant green, you could always add a couple drops of green food coloring into your batter. That’ll really make these cookies pop.

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I just so happened to have some lime green sprinkles in my pantry so I sprinkled some on top of that gorgeous fluff. I didn’t even use anything special to frost the cookies. It’s simply done with a spoon! Can you believe it? Just scoop out the frosting, plop it on your cooled cookie, then use the backside of the spoon to swirl in a circular motion.

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Pillsbury also has key lime frosting  (which I was originally intending to use on top of the cookies), but after I tasted the cookies out of the oven, I changed my mind. If you’re a fan of a strong key lime flavor, though, I’d recommend going for the key lime on key lime!

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These cookies are as fluffy as can be, tart, and fairly light. My DH loved them.

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Be careful with over-baking them!

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For more fun recipes and ideas, check out Pillsbury’s Facebook Page, Pinterest, and Instagram.

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Key Lime Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 box (15.25 oz) Pillsbury™ Moist Supreme® Key Lime Flavored Premium Cake Mix
  • 1/3 cup olive oil (or vegetable oil)
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 can (12 oz) Pillsbury™ Fluffy Frost™ Vanilla Marshmallow Flavored Fluffy Frosting
  • sprinkles (optional)

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with a Silpat.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix, oil, and eggs until combined.
  3. Use a large cookie scooper to place balls of the dough onto the prepared baking sheet.
  4. Bake for 12-14 minutes. Let cool completely before frosting. Immediately add sprinkles on top of the frosting, if using.
https://lovintheoven.com/key-lime-cookies/

This is a sponsored post, but the opinions expressed are my own.

Chewy Coconut White Chocolate Chip Cookies

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My DH has a problem… an Amiibo addiction. Do you know what those things are?  They’re little figurines that Nintendo created for the Wii. Problem is, my DH just collects them. He doesn’t care much for actually playing with them.

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I guess there could be worse things that he’s into, but man, Nintendo created some monsters! They’re so good at it, too. I don’t get the appeal over these things.

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What I do get, however, is chewy cookies! White chocolate and coconut go so well together.

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These cookies are about as soft as it gets. Just look at the inside!:

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Recipe slightly adapted from Tracey’s Culinary Adventures (the only thing I did differently was omit the coconut extract since I didn’t have any on hand and increase the amount of white chocolate chips).

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Chewy Coconut White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Serving Size: a little over 2 dozen

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg, at room temperature
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup white chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup sweetened shredded coconut

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Cream together the butter and both sugars. Mix in the egg and vanilla.
  3. Gradually stir in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt until just combined.
  4. Add in the white chocolate chips and coconut.
  5. Roll the dough into tablespoon sized balls and drop onto baking sheet, at least two inches apart.
  6. Bake for 9-11 minutes.
https://lovintheoven.com/chewy-coconut-white-chocolate-chip-cookies/

Pecan Balls

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I have so many posts that I need to work on. My photo library is getting a little excessive and I need to upload them to my blog to match their recipes, stat. I have countless cookie recipes that are just waiting to be published!

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Anyway, our apartment browsing this past weekend wasn’t very successful. We saw two places that we loved, but one was just a smidgen out of our budget and the other got swiped up by someone else.

Maybe we’re being too picky. I just want a a kitchen with plenty of light to bake in!

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It’s a mad, mad world out there. Seriously. If you don’t turn in your application within two seconds of seeing the place, then your chances of actually getting it disappear completely.

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I guess it wasn’t meant to be. Oh well, we’ll continue the hunt until something comes along.

Meanwhile, I’ll continue popping cookies out of my little kitchen and faithful oven.

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These pecan snowballs are one of my favorite cookies. They’re not very sweet and have a soft, but crunchy (is that even possible?) texture. They crumble and melt in your mouth.

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I rolled my cookies in powdered sugar twice because the first layer melted and disappeared. I also like my cookies on the sweeter side.

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Recipe from Laura’s Sweet Spot

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Pecan Balls

Yield: approximately 30 cookies

Ingredients

  • ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • ¾ cup sifted confectioners’ sugar, divided
  • 1½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • pinch cinnamon, optional
  • ⅓ cup ground or finely chopped pecans
  • confectioners’ sugar, sifted, for rolling

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Cream together the butter, ¼ cup of the confectioners’ sugar, and the vanilla.
  3. Slowly mix in the flour, salt, and cinnamon, if using.
  4. Stir in the nuts until just combined.
  5. Roll the dough into small balls and bake for 12-15 minutes.
  6. Put the remaining ½ cup confectioners’ sugar in a large bowl. Remove the cookies from the oven and, while they are still warm, put the cookies into the sugar mixture and roll around. Allow cookies to cool completely.
https://lovintheoven.com/pecan-balls/

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