Are you a secret cookie monster? KDH loves baking cookies with my stepdaughter Lily and her pal Isabel, and I have to share the next recipe on our list: Anders Ruff Key Lime Cookies.  My friends Maureen Anders & Adria Ruff are the mini Martha Stewart’s behind www.AndersRuff.com, an amazing on-line shop for unique, chic, adorable, printable invitations, decor, party accessories, and recipes. Anders Ruff equips the haute Hamptons hostess with the special details needed to make an event memorable. Below Maureen shares her family recipe for Key Lime Cookies with KDHamptons bakers……SWEET!! 

Maureen shares: Spring is officially here and I am in full swing gardening mode! I simply love being outside on spring days in the Carolinas and there is nothing more refreshing than Lemons and Limes.  I love to drink lemon infused water on these gorgeous 70 degree days.  The most perfect companion to a glass of chilled lemon water is a scrumptious Key Lime Cookie!  I adapted my popular Pink Lemonade Cookies recipe that I created to make a Key Lime Cookie concoction. I guess maybe the Pink Lemonade party we featured a couple weeks ago inspired me to go citrus!

These would be perfect at a Citrus Party or a Lemonade Party, right!? Or Maybe to sell at a Lemonade Stand?  I love watching my kids be little entrepreneurs! These cookies have the BEST texture with the perfect flavor combination – Soft, creamy, rich, tart and sweet and then finished off with a little crunch from the graham cracker crumb topping.

One of the best parts of key lime pie is the graham cracker crust, so I had to incorporate graham crackers somehow. I couldn’t’ figure out how to add them into the dough without ruining it so I tried this topping trick below~ it worked!

THANKS TO MAUREEN THE BAKING QUEEN FOR SHARING THIS RECIPE!

**Download the Printable Recipe Card for these cookies and check out more great party planning ideas from KDHamptons favorite design duo at www.andersruff.com