Lime Thai Basil Shortbread With Passion Fruit Glaze

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These elegant cookies person a subtle, analyzable flavor.

The dough needs astatine slightest 2 hours' refrigeration. It tin beryllium frozen for up to 1 month. The unglazed, baked cookies tin beryllium frozen for up to 3 months. Store the glazed cookies betwixt layers of parchment oregon wax insubstantial successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 1 week.

From Kate Jansen, enforcement pastry cook astatine Willow edifice successful Arlington.

Ingredients

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Servings: 60  cookies

For the cookies

  • 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
  • 1/2 cupful confectioners' sugar
  • 1/2 spoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped Thai basil
  • Finely grated zest and freshly squeezed foodstuff from 1 oregon 2 limes (2 teaspoons zest, 1 tablespoonful juice)
  • 1/2 cupful cornstarch
  • 1 1/2 cups flour, positive much for the enactment surface

For the glaze

  • 1 1/2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
  • 3 tablespoons concentrated passionateness effect juice
  • 1 tablespoonful dense cream

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (with glaze)

  • Calories

    60

  • Fat

    3 g

  • Saturated Fat

    2 g

  • Carbohydrates

    8 g

  • Sodium

    20 mg

  • Cholesterol

    10 mg

  • Sugar

    4 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Kate Jansen, enforcement pastry cook astatine Willow edifice successful Arlington.

Tested by Mary Pat Flaherty.

Published December 6, 2011

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Updated March 14, 2026

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