Key Lime Pie Cookies

Cookies on a cooling rack with lime wedges and zest on top.

4.67 from 3 votes

If you love fresh lime flavors, white chocolate and cream cheese, these Key Lime Pie Cookies are your new favorite cookies. They're velvety and rich but only 120 calories each so you never need to feel anything but happy when eating them.

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Calories: 120kcal

Author: Danielle Lima

Ingredients

Wet Ingredients

1/2 cup light brown sugar (or sugar substitie) lightly packed, 90g
1/2 cup sugar (or sugar substitute) 100g
1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
1 lime zest
3 small limes, juiced approx. 1/4 cup
2 oz. reduced fat cream cheese room temp

Dry Ingredients

1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 210g
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 cup LIly's white chocolate chips (any brand) 40g
lime zest on top optional, but recommended

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheight and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, cream the sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
Add the cream cheese cheese, lime zest and lime juice and mix until combined.
In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing until just combined.
Fold in the chocolate chips.
Drop 1.5 Tbsp. spoonfuls of dough onto the prepared baking sheet. This recipes makes approximately 19 cookies with a 1.5 Tbsp. cookie scoop. Sprinkle additional lime zest on top if using.
Bake for 11-12 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden. Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Notes

Nutritional information is an estimate and will vary with substitutions.
Do not over-mix your dough.
Use softened butter. I like to pull mine out a couple hours before using.
If you want the cookies to all be the same shape after baking, take to top of a mason jar lid, place it over the cookie and swirl it around in a circular motion for a few minutes. This will result in the perfect circular cookies.
Want to make these lower calorie? Use a 1:1 sugar substitute (this will change the taste of the cookies and possibly the texture) or make them smaller into 1 Tbsp. cookies.

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