Coconut Cookies

With lime glaze

Coconut cookies are awesome. They have great texture and they can pretty much be paired with any flavour. This cookie is matched up with lime, and is very refreshing. I came up with two different ways of doing them, one of which came with the recipe, but the other I made up. Let's get to it! Anyways, here are the ingredients you'll need....

1 1/4 cup margarine
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon coconut extract
2 tbsp lime juice
3/4 teaspoon lime zest
1 1/4 cup corn starch
1 1/2 cup flour
3/4 cup sweetened, shredded coconut
2/3 cup sweetened, shredded coconut for decor

Lime Glaze
2 tbsp lime juice
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon coconut extract

Chocolate
3 blocks (one ounce each) of unsweetened chocolate
1/2 cup sugar

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F
Mix together the margarine, vanilla extract, coconut extract, lime juice, and lime zest. Then add in the powdered sugar. Once that is thoroughly mixed together, add in the shredded coconut, and then the flour (leave the 2/3 cup of shredded coconut aside)

Next, take 1 inch balls of the dough and place them on a tray, and then take the 2/3 of coconut and sprinkle about a pinch of the coconut on top of each cookie. Cook them for 15 minutes, until they are firm and the coconut on the top is starting to brown. While they cook, mix the lime glaze ingredients, and set it aside. Melt the chocolate wit the sugar (see last post for instructions on how to melt chocolate).

Take the cookies out of the oven and let them cool. Once they have cooled, you can either dip them top first into the glaze, then set them aside to dry, or give them a chocolate bottom. Dip them into the chocolate and set them on wax paper on a tray. Stick the tray in the freezer so they can harden.

Put the cookies in an air tight container and freeze them to keep them fresh until you use them.

Cooooocooonut!
Julia