Easy Sweet Coconut Cookies recipe

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Ingredients

¾ cup white sugar
½ cup vegetable shortening
1 egg
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sifted all purpose flour
2 tablespoons sifted all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup flaked coconut

Nutrition Info

120.8 calories
carbohydrate: 14.9 g
cholesterol: 9.3 mg
fat: 6.5 g
fiber: 0.6 g
protein: 1.2 g
saturatedFat: 2.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 67.6 mg
sugar: 8.9 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease baking sheets.

  2. With an electric mixer, cream together the sugar, vegetable shortening, egg, and vanilla extract in a bowl until light and fluffy. Sift 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons of flour together with the baking powder and salt in a bowl, and stir the flour mixture into the creamed mixture, mix in the coconut until thoroughly combined. Drop the dough by teaspoons onto the prepared baking sheets.

  3. Bake in the preheated oven until very lightly browned, about 10 minutes, allow cookies to cool on sheets for about 1 minute before removing to finish cooling on baking racks.

Recipe Yield

20 cookies

Recipe Note

Sweet coconut cookies everyone will LOVE! It does not make many cookies so if you have a hankering for them, it's best to double the batch.

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