Margarita Cookies

Recipe Rating:	1 Rating5
Categories:	Cookies, Quick & Easy
Collections:	Fiesta Time!
Keywords:	lemon, orange, cookie, lime, Margarita
Serves:	2 dozen
Prep Time:	10 Min
Cook Time:	15 Min

Ingredients

2 1/4 c	all purpose flour
3/4 c	sugar
	zest of 1 lemon, zest of 2 limes and zest of 1 orange
1	egg yolk
1 c	butter room temp. (2 sticks)
2 tsp	tequila
2 tsp	triple sec or orange liquer
1/4 tsp	salt
ORANGE GLAZE
2 c	powder sugar
1/4 c	fresh orange juice (for grown ups substitute orange juice with triple sec or tequila.)

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Karina Alcala

Lightly Salted

macks creek , MO (pop. 244)

mamade4

Member Since Jan 2012

Karina's Notes:

This recipe is an updated one of the original recipe. I like the original one but I thought it just didn't have enough flavor. So I made some changes. They are delicious and super flavorful. You can ice them or leave them plain. The original recipe I found while looking for margarita recipes.

Directions

In a bowl cream together butter and sugar with a mixer add egg yolk and all the zest. Cream until well combined. Add tequila, triple sec and salt. Add flour in a little at a time. fold flour in until well combined with wooden spoon or mixer with paddle attachment. Cover dough with plastic wrap and put in fridge for 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees line cookie sheets with parchment paper or spray with non stick spray. Scoop out cookie dough into tbs rounds or with cookie scoop.
I always have enough dough to make 2 dozen. Space them 2 inches apart because they will spread when they are cooked. Cook in the preheated oven for 15 minutes until edges start to turn golden brown.

Take cookies out and let them set in cookie sheet for 5 minutes and let them cool in wire rack for 15. Make glaze either with orange juice if giving them to the kids or for the grownups use tequila or triple sec. They are delicious and beautiful looking with the specs of orange, yellow and green.

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Karina Alcala mamade4

I shared a photo of this recipe.

Sarah Bowes domesticatedengineer

May 17, 2012

Made this recipe. For some reason they didn't spread out when cooking. They still tasted amazing! I ended up topping with a sugar/salt mixture instead of the glaze. I have a picture on my blog of what mine looked like. www.domesticated-engineer.c...

Thanks for the great recipe!