Coconut cookies

Name: Coconut cookies
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 3 cups flour; 3 tsp baking powder; 11/4 cup sugar; 1 egg; 125 g butter; 1 tsp salt; 2 tsp coconut flavor; 1 cup grated and toasted coconut; 1/4 cup milk or coconut milk

Ezinne Okwu @cook_13497776

Enugu

Looking for crunchy delicious cookies? Or you love coconut and looking for new ways to use your coconut? Then this recipe is for you.
Always remember to read through a new recipe before trying it out.

Ezinne Okwu @cook_13497776

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Ingredients

3 cupsflour
3 tspbaking powder
11/4 cupsugar
1egg
125 gbutter
1 tspsalt
2 tspcoconut flavor
1 cupgrated and toasted coconut
1/4 cupmilk or coconut milk

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Steps

1

Preheat your oven and line baking tray with parchment paper or foil.
2

Sift flour and baking powder together, and set aside. Cream butter and sugar till pale and fluffy.
3

Add egg and mix till completely incorperated. Add flour mixture one cup at a time, till a rollable dough is formed. Add milk but by bit if the dough is too stiff till it's pliable. Add the coconut and fold into the dough by hand.
4

Take a bit of dough, roll into a ball and flatten with your palms. Repeat same process for remaining dough, place the dough on the baking tray, 2cm apart.
5

Bake for 10-15minutes or till dough is set. Take off the oven and allow to cool completely. Cookies can last up to a week but must be stored in an airtight container or ziploc bag.