Coconut Macadamia Crescents Food

MACADAMIA-COCONUT COOKIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients for cookies except the white chocolate chips. Stir until soft dough forms.
• Drop cookie dough by tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 15 to 16 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Remove from oven and cool 1 minute.
• Melt white chocolate chips in microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring each time, until smooth. Drizzle over cookies.

COCONUT MACADAMIA COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 C/Gas Mark 4)In a mixing bowl beat butter or margarine with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add the sugar and baking soda and beat until combined. Beat in the eggs, sour cream and vanilla. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in any remaining flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in any remaining flour with a wooden spoon. Stir in coconut and nuts.
• 2. Drop roudned teaspoons of dough onto ungreased baking sheets, spacing them 2 inches apart. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until golden brown. Transfer to wire racks to cool.

COCONUT MACADAMIA CRUSTED CHICKEN BREASTS

Steps:

• Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in baking dish.
• Stir together sour cream and half and half; put in a gallon ziploc bag.
• Put remaining dry ingredients in a small food processor and chop to desired consistency.
• Place the dry ingredients in a seperate gallon ziploc bag.
• Rinse and pat dry chicken breast and dip in ziploc bag of sour cream mixture, then place in nut mixture to coat.
• Place chicken in baking dish and melt remaining 2 tablespoons of butter and drizzle over chicken.
• Bake at 350 for approx 35-40 minutes or until chicken is done.
• If a darker crust is desired, place under the broiler for just a minute or two.

COCONUT MACADAMIA COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla and sour cream. Combine the flour and baking soda; stir into the creamed mixture until well blended. Use a wooden spoon to stir in the coconut and macadamia nuts. Drop dough by rounded teaspoons 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until edges are golden brown. remove cookies from baking sheets to cool on wire racks.

COCONUT-MACADAMIA CRESCENTS

Steps:

• Using electric mixer, beat butter in medium bowl until light. Gradually beat in 3/4 cup powdered sugar. Beat in extracts. Stir in flour and salt, then macadamia nuts. Refrigerate dough 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 325°F. Line 3 large baking sheets with parchment paper. Pinch off 1 tablespoon dough; shape into 2-inch-long, 1/2-inch-thick crescent. Repeat with remaining dough. Brush crescents with egg white, then dip tops into coconut. Place crescents, coconut side up, on parchment-lined sheets, spacing cookies 1 inch apart. Bake until just barely golden brown, about 20 minutes. Cool cookies on sheets on rack. Sift additional powdered sugar over cookies. (Can be prepared 1 week ahead. Transfer cookies to airtight container and freeze. Bring to room temperature before serving.)

COCONUT-MACADAMIA SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400*F.
• Cut the butter into the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt until the mixture resembles fine crumbs.
• Stir in the macadamia nuts and coconut.
• Stir in the egg and just enough half-and-half (1/2 cup) so that the dough leaves the sides of the bowl and forms a ball.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface; gently roll in flour to coat.
• Knead lightly 10 times.
• Roll or pat the dough into an 8" circle on an ungreased cookie sheet; cut into 8 wedges but do not separate them from each other.
• Brush with half-and-half; sprinkle with coconut.
• Bake for 16-18 minutes, or until golden brown.
• Immediately remove from cookie sheet; carefully separate wedges.
• Serve warm.