Oatmeal Cookies with Lime, Coconut, and White Chocolate
Updated April 28, 2011
I recently created a special cookie for my Joshua. He loves my oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, so I used the oatmeal dough as the base. He is also in love with everything lime, so I added in lime zest and a couple drops of fresh lime juice. I wasn’t sure how the juice would take to the cookies, so I just added a little. I had a good thing going, so I continued on.
½ c. brown sugar
½ c. white sugar
½ cup softened unsalted butter
1 egg
1 tsp. Vanilla
Zest of 1-2 limes (I used 2)
A couple drops of fresh lime juice
¼ tsp. Salt
½ tsp. Baking powder
½ tsp. Baking soda
1 ¼ c. flour
1 ¼ c. oats
About ¾ cup coconut
About 1 cup white chocolate chunks (or chips)
Cream the butter with the sugars until soft and creamy, using a mixer. Add in egg and vanilla. Add in lime zest and juice. Mix briefly. In a separate bowl combine the salt, baking powder, soda, flour. Add to wet ingredients. Mix until blended. Add your oats and then your coconut and chocolate.
Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes! Don’t let them get too done…they are better when they are soft!
Ps I didnt think the lime would go well but it was actually amazing!
AMAZING COOKIES! Made a batch yesterday for a family get together. These were gone before lunch was served! All of my aunts asked for the recipe and my uncle had at least 10!
Mine were done at 9 minutes or so and they were soooo delicious! Yum! Thanks for the recipe!!!
These were fabulous! I baked them a few years back and was craving them again. Even better than I remembered. I added 1/4 cup of flax and they turned out perfect.
I loved this recipe! I didn’t have any limes, so I made half the recipe with chopped apple juice-sweetened cranberries and the other half without. The cranberries were the better cookies! Also I added 1 T. Black Strap molasses, cut the white sugar to just 1/4, and used unsweetened coconut. Thanks for sharing, love your blog!
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I just finished putting these cookies together and sadly there are no instructions for the baking sheet (greased/no grease/parchment). Also, there is no mention of size (drop by rounded tablespoon/1″ cookie scoop) or how many cookies this is supposed to make to hazard a guess. I will be sure to add a rating on taste alone when they are done. It’s not easy to bake when you have small children so I sure hope they turn out.
This recipe is really good, has a refreshing taste to it. Could get away with less sugar (I used aboutm 3/4cup total of sugar) and still be sweet enough. Thank you for this.