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Coconut Cookies

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Coconut Cookies

Active time: 35 min Start to finish: 5 hr

Cooks' note:

Instead of forming dough into a log and chilling, you can roll tablespoons of dough into 1 1/4-inch balls. Bake, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until bottoms are browned, about 15 minutes total.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes about 4 dozen cookies

Ingredients

2 cups sweetened flaked coconut
Ingredients for basic butter cookies
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
Garnish: sweetened flaked coconut and coarse sugar

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Pulse coconut in a food processor until finely ground.

    Step 2

    Follow recipe for basic butter cookies, mixing in coconut and almond extract after adding flour. (To roll cookies into balls, see cooks' note, below.)

    Step 3

    If garnishing, sprinkle cookies with flaked coconut and coarse sugar before baking.

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