If you can pick a sack of key limes at the grocery store, or if you are lucky enough to have a key lime tree in your backyard, that’s great. I use actual key lime in this recipe, but regular Persian limes will do the job just fine.Tips for making Key Lime Snowball Cookies: I mean, regular snowball cookies are melt-in-your-mouth delicious anyway, but with a hint of lime, they are pretty much irresistible. They are so delicious, though, that they are usually devoured before I can hide any away for gifts or for the freezer. This recipe, in fact, makes a batch of about 4 dozen. Don’t get me wrong – I make plenty of these snowballs. These Key Lime Snowball Cookies, however, often never make it that far. I also try and stash as many away in the freezer as possible so that I can serve them on Christmas day and New Year’s Day. I give them to the neighbors and mail them out to friends and family in care packages. December inevitably turns into a cookie avalanche around here. Like my mother and grandmother before me, the holidays awakens an urge in me to bake – I am talking dozens and dozens of cookies. I come from a long line of Christmas cookie makers. Serve them at any holiday party or gathering and watch them be devoured! (And for more homestyle holiday cookies, check out my recipe for Old-Fashioned Gingersnaps!) But these snowball cookies have a tropical twist with the addition of a hint of Key Lime flavor. Filled with finely chopped, toasted pecans and rolled in layers of powdered sugar, they are buttery and have that melt-in-your-mouth texture of traditional snowball cookies. These Key Lime Snowball Cookies are almost, but not quite, like Grandma’s Snowball Cookies.
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