Coconut Cookies with Lime Frosting

Earthquake, impending hurricane, and not winning the fabulous red ice cream maker from the giveaway on Bake at 350.  Sigh.  It’s been a week.

That’s okay.  Someday I’ll make homemade ice cream.  In the meantime, Bridget, her beautiful cookies, and her fun blog inspired me to try something new.

It’s the end of summer, so my thoughts turned to tropical treats.  I found a recipe for coconut icebox cookies from allrecipes.com and an ice cream cone cookie cutter.  Because I planned on cutting out cookies instead of slicing them (as the recipe called for), I measured the shredded coconut and then finely chopped it.

I chilled the dough for a couple hours and then cut out ice cream cones.

While the cookies cooled, I mixed the icing.  I followed the royal icing 102 tutorial from Bake at 350 with just one change. When measuring the scant half cup of water, I first added 2 tablespoons of lime juice. 

First, I outlined the ice cream cones with royal icing.

Then I thinned the royal icing and flooded the cone with tan frosting and the ice cream with white frosting.  For color, and to hint at the lime flavor, I added some green sprinkles. 

As a final touch, I added the waffle marks to the ice cream cones.