Coconut Sugar Cookies
from the kitchen of: Alice & Jeanne Coconut flavored emulsion is the secret to this yummy no-roll sugar cookie – it provides a full, deep-bodied flavor that doesn’t weaken with baking.
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Yield: 3-4 dozen
Ingredients:
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Yield: 3-4 dozen
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter at room temperature
1 egg
1 teaspoon coconut flavored emulsion
3/4 cup shredded sweetened coconut
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon salt
sugar for rolling cookie dough balls
1/4 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup shredded sweetened coconut
Directions:
Cream butter and sugar. Blend in egg, coconut flavoring, and coconut. Sift together flour, soda, cream of tartar, and salt and mix into batter. Roll cookie dough into walnut-sized balls and roll in sugar. Place on cookie sheet. Flatten with bottom of glass. Mix buttermilk and ½ cup shredded coconut together. Top each cookie round with ½ teaspoon buttermilk and coconut mixture; top this with another flattened cookie round. Pinch edges together. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until cookies edges are just golden.
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