Coconut Butter Glazed Cookies By Freda Food

COCONUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• In a mixer with a paddle attachment, whip the butter until very light and fluffy. Add the sugar and continue whipping, then add the rum and vanilla and mix. Toss together the coconut, flour and salt then add to the butter mixture and mix until blended. Butter a small sheet pan (9 by 12-inch), and line it with plastic all the way up the sides. Spread the dough evenly into the pan, cover it with plastic and freeze. Cut frozen dough into 2-inch strips and roll in flour. Wrap and freeze or cut into1/8-inch bars and place on parchment or silpat-lined sheet pan. Bake in a conventional oven at 250 degrees F for about 30 minutes until crisp but barely colored.

COCONUT LIME BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• For the cookies: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Using a hand or stand mixer, cream the butter and granulated sugar until combined. Add the egg yolks and mix until combined. Add the lemon and lime zest. Add the flour and mix until just combined. Next, add the citrus juice (your choice) and coconut extract and mix the dough until it comes together.
• Scoop out tablespoons of dough, roll into balls between your hands and place on a baking sheet. Bake until not quite starting to turn brown, 12 to 13 minutes. Remove from the oven but keep the cookies on the baking sheet for 3 to 4 minutes. Use a spatula to move them to a cooling rack to cool completely.
• For the icing: Add the powdered sugar, cream of coconut, lemon and lime zest, milk, coconut extract, salt, egg white and lemon and lime juice to a large bowl. Whisk thoroughly until combined, adding either more powdered sugar or more juice until it reaches a pourable but still thick consistency.
• Drizzle the icing across the cookies in several lines, and then repeat in the other direction. Sprinkle the cookies with extra zest before the icing sets.

COCONUT BUTTER GLAZED COOKIES BY FREDA

Steps:

• Preheat Oven @ 350 degrees in Large Bowl, beat butter with sugar until fluffy; Stir in egg, flavoring. in seperate bowl blend together dry ingredients flour, stir in coconut, cornstarch, soda, and stir into butter mixture, 1/2 at a time.
• Divide batter in 1/2, flatten into (2)disks and wrap in plastic wrap and place in refer to chill till firm, about 30 min.
• Between floured wax paper, roll out dough to 1/4 " thick.Use 2 1/2" cookie cutter cut out cookies, re-roll scraps, Place 1"-2" apart on parchment paper lined baking sheet. Place in freezer 15 Min. until firm, *BEFORE* Baking.
• Bake 10-12 min. till cookies are firm & edges are golden brown. Cool 2 Min, then Transfer to racks to cool
• GLAZE; in small bowl, Whisk together all glaze Ingredients, Spread a scant tsp over each cookie and let harden. OPTION; after glazing each cookie, sprinkle with toasted coconut.

COCONUT VANILLA GLAZED PECAN COOKIES BY FREDA

Steps:

• 1. Preheat Oven @ 375 degrees. Spray cookie sheet with no stick PAM spray. Mix together Bread mix, Add Butter, Blend with fork or Pastry blender. Mix till coarse crumbly mixture
• 2. Add Flavoring, & egg, Mix well. Stir in Coconut and half an half (or egg-nog,) stir til soft dough forms.
• 3. On Lightly floured surface, pat dough out to 1/2" thickness, cut with 2" round or square, cookie cutter, Place on pam sprayed cookie sheet.
• 4. BAKE; 12-16 min, or til light golden brown. Cool 2-4 min then remove from cookie sheet. Cool another 10 min.
• 5. GLAZE; in a small bowl mix all the glaze ingredients, adding enough milk or nog to desired consistency, Blend until smooth and no lumps. spread glaze over cookies. TOPPING; Immediately sprinkle glazed tops with coconut and pecans. These not only look pretty but these taste wonderful.

LORETTA LYNNS COCONUT THUMBPRINT COOKIES BY FREDA

Steps:

• 1. Preheat Oven @ 375 Grease baking sheet. Cream Butter with sugar, egg yolk (only yolk please) and vanilla til creamy.
• 2. Combine Flour with salt and baking powder. Add to Creamed Mixture. Blend well.
• 3. Beat the egg whites, until frothy. Form dough into 1 inch balls. Dip balls into egg whites, then roll into coconut. Place on cookie sheet make shallow depression in center with thumb. Spoon 1/2 tsp preserves into each.
• 4. Bake @ 375 for 8-10 min or till coconut begins to brown. Makes 2 dozen cookies. From Loretta Lynn's recipes.

"COCONUT WASHBOARDS" BY FREDA

Steps:

• 1. preheat oven 375 adjust oven racks into 3rds.
• 2. Sift together 1st 4 ingredients, set aside.
• 3. Cream Butter, Beat in Vanilla ADD Brn Sgr. and beat well. ADD egg, & water, the mixture will appear curdled, that's ok.
• 4. On low speed, gradually blend dry ingredients. beat only til combined. stir in coconut.
• 5. cut a piece of wax paper to fit the cookie sheet. Use heaping teaspoon of the dough for each cookie. (remember these are large) place them close to each other on the wax paper, forming 24 mounds. Slide cookie sheet under wax paper, transfer to freezer or refer to chill until fir enough to handle. NOTE:(if in freezer watch carefully they should not be frozen solid)
• 6. tip: cut alluminum foil to fit cookie sheet. have some flour ready to flour hands, and a fork.
• 7. Flour your hands, pick up a mound, and roll it between your palms, into a sausage shape about 3" long. Place on foil, continue shapping remaining mounds of dough, placing 3" apart. (NO CLOSER)
• 8. flour your finger tips with one hand, and with finger tips flatten each sausage-shaped roll until they are 1/4" thick, 3 1/2" long by 2" wide.
• 9. Now to form the traditional ridges, that gibe these cookies their name: dip a fork into the flour & press the back of the tines, forming deep indentations. Since the cookies are so large it will be necessary to press the fork 4 times.once for each quarter of the cookie surface. the ridges should be parrallel, and go lengthwise with the cookie.
• 10. Slide cookie sheet under the foil. BAKE cookies 12 min. reversing the sheets top to bottom, and turning front to back, once, to insure even browning, now bake til golden brown all over. (DO NOT UNDERBAKE) if only using a single baking sheet at a tme, use the high rack.
• 11. Let cookies stand in pcookie sheet 3-5 min before removing with wide metal spatula transfer to cooling rack. . . . baking approx 20 min total time. Makes 24, X-LARGE COOKIES.