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
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.
