📖 Coconut Sugar Cookies
The coconut sugar cookies dipped in chocolate are soft and chewy in the middle, perfectly sweet, and loaded with coconut. Made with only a few basic baking ingredients, this is a perfect cookie recipe to have in your repertoire.
Prep Time20 minutes mins
Cook Time12 minutes mins
1 hour hr
Total Time1 hour hr 32 minutes mins
Course: cookies, Snack
Cuisine: American, european, French
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 95kcal
- 2 sticks butter soft (227g or 1 cup of small cube of butter, packed)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg medium
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- 1 cup dark chocolate
In a large bowl, cream the butter and the brown sugar with a hand mixer or stand mixer.
Add the vanilla extract and the egg. Whisk some more.
With a rubber spatula, mix until the flour is fully incorporated.
Add the shredded coconut and mix some more until smooth. It could be a little sticky but it is okay or add a few pinches of flour (little bit at a time)
Wrap you dough in a plastic wrap and refrigerate for an hour.
Pre-heat the oven at 375F and prepare a baking tray with parchment or silicone mat.
On a clean surface and slightly dusted with flour, roll down the dough with a rolling pin. For evne cookies, use chop sticks on each side of the dough.
Using a cookie cutter of your choice, cut the cookies and place them on the baking sheet.
Bake for 12 minutes or until it is slightly golden.
Allow them to cool down before handling them.
In a large pot, filled with water, put some chocolate in a small pot and melt on a double boil (or bain-marie).
Dunk the cookies in the chocolate and place them on a cookie rack.
- Store cookies in an air-tight container up to 5 days.
- Make the dough ahead of time and store in the fridge up to 48 hours. Take out of the fridge 30 minutes before using it.Â
- Do not overwork the dough or your cookie will be hard.Â
- Do not skip the chilling part as it allows the fat to solidify and therefore to allow the cookie to stay in shape while cooking.Â
Calories: 95kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 7mg | Sodium: 15mg | Potassium: 39mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 10IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 1mg