I signed up to make cookies for our church's annual Easter egg hunt and COMPLETELY forgot until late in the afternoon the day before. *gasp* Don't you just hate that?! So, I open my refrigerator to see what fun things I might have and find half a bag of coconut left over from the week before from when my daughter, Alexa, and I assembled hamburger cookies. (Future post!) Off to the vastness of the internet I went aaaaaand....presto! This is what I found!
Courtesy of Hershey's Kitchens
Ingredients
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter or margarine, SOFTENED
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups sweetened flaked coconut
1 1/2 cups quick-cook oats
Directions
(1) Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
(2) Beat butter and both sugars on medium speed until well blended.
(3) Add eggs and vanilla, let it blend. Add flour, soda, and salt, beating until well blended.
(4) STIR in coconut and oats. (This dough is THICK so it's probably not a good idea to use your mixer for this step....I set my KitchenAid to the "Stir" setting, poured in the oats and coconut, and then shut it off to finish stirring by hand)
(5) Drop by teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet. (I pressed my dough balls down a little bit with my fingers to give them a nicer shape.) Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. (With my first batch, I had to bake 12 mins. Second batch was 8 mins.)
The recipe says it yields about 5 dozen....with my first batch, I used Pampered Chef's medium cookie scoop and got about 4 dozen. But, with the second batch using Pampered Chef's small cookie scoop I got exactly 5 dozen...plus one cookie.
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Finished Product
Verdict? I was afraid I wouldn't like the texture, but it's really not bad and the taste overrides any weirdness I would have had over texture anyway! LOVE the taste, but the look was....well, boring. I was making these for KIDS who are extremely reliant on their sense of sight. And they were kind of big. Soooo, I bought another bag of coconut (yes, I made these so I could use the half bag that was in my fridge and now I have a different half bag sitting in there. *sigh*) and, because the cookies very slightly reminded me of birds' nests, some pastel colored Easter themed plain M&M's to use as "eggs" for in the little "nests". (If doing the M&M's thing, make sure to PRESS the candies into the cookies IMMEDIATELY after removing the cookies from the oven or else they won't stick!)
Soooooooo cute! Love them! Not only did it make them more eye pleasing, but hello? Added bonus of chocolate! Oh, and Alexa approved, so I'm a happy momma.
HAPPY EASTER!!!!
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