Sunday, November 24, 2019

Fudgy Chocolate Kokosnoot Drops

Coconut together with chocolate lovers beware amongst a double dose of kokosnoot together with a double dose of chocolate inwards these Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops, you lot won't move able to larn enough!

 amongst a double dose of kokosnoot together with a double dose of chocolate inwards these  Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops

My hubby Mark is a animal of habit.  Once he starts doing some quirky fiddling thing, he keeps on doing it.  Over.  and over.  and over.  and over.  and over again.  Like when I create something, he pretty much ever says {picking, of course}, "Needs to a greater extent than jalapeno."  Doesn't affair what I've cooked.  Or if it's fifty-fifty remotely inwards the spicy identify unit of measurement of foods.  "Needs to a greater extent than jalapeno."

Well similar a shot when I bake he's started saying, "Needs to a greater extent than coconut."  Oy.  As if nosotros needed i to a greater extent than quirky, picky fiddling habit about here.

So I decided to bake upwards some cookies that inwards no-way-shape-or-form needed to a greater extent than coconut.  'Cause they've got a double dose  of tasty kokosnoot ...
Mmmm hmmm.  These fiddling Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops larn a double dose from kokosnoot extract together with sweetened flaked coconut.

And that's  the perfect sum of kokosnoot for them, I say!

Oh, but know what makes kokosnoot fifty-fifty improve than a double dose of the stuff?

Chocolate!

You only can't larn incorrect amongst kokosnoot together with chocolate.

These fudgy fiddling bites root out amongst a fudgy chocolate cookie dough, laced amongst kokosnoot extract together with chocolate chips, that gets scooped out together with rolled into balls ...

 amongst a double dose of kokosnoot together with a double dose of chocolate inwards these  Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops

{As you lot tin hand notice see, I work my cookie scoop to aid me out amongst this.  I looooooooove my cookie scoop amongst a double dose of kokosnoot together with a double dose of chocolate inwards these  Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops!}

The dough balls together with then larn rolled inwards sweetened flaked kokosnoot ...

 amongst a double dose of kokosnoot together with a double dose of chocolate inwards these  Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops

... together with baked upwards into delicious fiddling fudgy bites of coconut-and-chocolate heaven.

 amongst a double dose of kokosnoot together with a double dose of chocolate inwards these  Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops

So I country cause got that Mark! ... With a double dose of yummy coconut, there's no agency nosotros should hear, "Needs to a greater extent than coconut."

Or  jalapeno.

 amongst a double dose of kokosnoot together with a double dose of chocolate inwards these  Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops


Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops
Source:  Adapted from Taste of the South magazine amongst a double dose of kokosnoot together with a double dose of chocolate inwards these  Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops, Dec 2013


Ingredients
  • 1/2 c. butter, softened
  • 1 c. granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 c. all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1/4 tsp. coconut extract
  • 1 1/4 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 2 c. sweetened flaked coconut
Directions
  1. With an electrical mixer, cream butter together with saccharide at medium speed until fluffy. Add eggs, i at a time, beating afterward each addition.
  2. In a carve upwards bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, baking powder, together with salt. Add to butter mixture a fiddling at a time, beating until good combined. Beat inwards vanilla extract together with kokosnoot extract. Stir inwards chocolate chips {Batter volition move pretty thick.}
  3. Place kokosnoot inwards a small-scale bowl. Scoop out tablespoonfuls of batter {I work a cookie scoop amongst a double dose of kokosnoot together with a double dose of chocolate inwards these  Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops} together with ringlet into only about 1-inch balls. Roll each ball inwards coconut, pressing gently to larn equally much kokosnoot to adhere equally you lot can. Place balls almost 2 inches apart on a baking sheet.
  4. Bake at 350 degrees for almost 9-10 minutes until kokosnoot is lightly toasted on the edges together with cookies are gear upwards {I similar to cause got mine out correct at ix minutes thus they'll move on the softer side}. Let stand upwards on the baking pan for 2 minutes; withdraw from pan amongst a spatula together with allow cool completely.

Makes almost three 1/2 dozen cookies.