Lemon-Lime Ricotta Cookies

This is our last batch of end-of-the-rotation thank you treats. Why? Because this week we are completing our LAST clinical rotation!! We graduate in almost exactly ONE MONTH, on May 11th! We’re really looking forward to be gainfully employed adults again.

But don’t worry, we have one more delicious treat for this last month. These cookies are soft and almost cake-like, as is typical of Italian cookies made with ricotta, and full of bright citrus flavors. I think they’re just perfect for spring! Light and bright = spring, right? While Pinterest-ing, I kept coming across people saying how they usually “don’t like ricotta cookies because they’re boring.” Is that a thing? Who are you people who don’t like light, fluffy, cake-cookies? The whole point is that they TASTE good right??

Lemon-Lime Ricotta Cookies

(Adapted from My Baking Addiction via Pinterest)

Ingredients: 

• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 1/2 cups AP flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 eggs, whisked
• 16oz (whole fat) ricotta
• 2 tbsp lime juice, divided
• 3 tbsp lemon juice, divided
• Zest from 2 limes
• Zest from 2 lemons
• 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar

Instructions: 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In stand mixer or with a hand-held mixer, cream together sugar and butter.
3. Sift together the dry ingredients in another bowl (flour, baking powder, salt).
4. Zest and juice the citrus fruits. Combine the zests in a small ramekin and set aside. {You’ll likely only need the juice from 1 lemon and 1 lime, but I like to have the zest from both.}
5. Add the eggs, ricotta, half of the citrus zest, and 1 tbsp each of lime & lemon juice to the bowl with the sugar and butter. Gently stir together.
6. Slowly add in the bowl of sifted dry ingredients and mix until well combined.
7. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone liner. Drop dough onto the cookie sheet in dollops of ~2tbsp each.
8. Bake for 12-15 minutes, until the bottoms are a golden brown.
9. Rest cookies on a rack to cool until easy to handle (15-20 minutes).
10. While cookies are cooling, prepare the glaze. Whisk together the powdered sugar, the other 2 tbsp of lemon juice & 1 tbsp lime juice each, and remaining zest.
11. Once glaze is smooth, dip the cookies into the glaze. Return the glazed cookies to the rack to sit until the glaze has hardened (~2 hours).

Makes ~4 dozen