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!
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 ...
{As you lot tin hand notice see, I work my cookie scoop to aid me out amongst this. I looooooooove my cookie scoop!}
The dough balls together with then larn rolled inwards sweetened flaked kokosnoot ...
... together with baked upwards into delicious fiddling fudgy bites of coconut-and-chocolate heaven.
Or jalapeno.
Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops
Source: Adapted from Taste of the South magazine, 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
- With an electrical mixer, cream butter together with saccharide at medium speed until fluffy. Add eggs, i at a time, beating afterward each addition.
- 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.}
- Place kokosnoot inwards a small-scale bowl. Scoop out tablespoonfuls of batter {I work a cookie scoop} 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.
- 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.
Enjoy!
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