A drop cookie loaded with coconut flavor
I’m the girl that burns a whole bag of coconut.
Catches a fork on fire in the microwave.
Scalds chocolate.
Drops a glass jar of cinnamon on a Bodum French Press.
I’m your typical klutz.
But that hasn’t stopped me from carrying on in the kitchen.
Today I’m sharing these cookies that were doomed for failure. I mean, Hello!, they have toasted coconut and they involve melting chocolate! Well, somehow I managed to pull it off. You may have seen them on Instagram (go ahead, take a peek 😉 ) and read about my concerns. Yea, the dough looked funny, but it’s just because these are drop cookies!
Oh, and by the way, they’re the vegan cousin to the Samoa cookie 🙂
Toasted Coconut Cookies
Author: Megan - The Emotional Baker
Serves: 24
Ingredients
- ½ cup canola oil
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ⅔ cup light coconut milk
- 2.5 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup shredded coconut, plus more for topping
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spread coconut (~1.5 cups) on baking sheet. Place in oven for five minutes. Stir. Place back in for three minutes. Stir. Continue until coconut is toasted a light brown. Be careful not to burn.
- Line baking sheet with parchment paper or Silpat.
- Combine oil, brown sugar, sugar and vanilla in large bowl.
- Add light coconut milk to sugar mixture.
- In measuring cup, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir into liquid mixture.
- Fold in shredded coconut.
- Drop balls of dough with cookie scoop. Use greased measuring cup to flatten cookies.
- Bake 8-10 minutes, until edges of cookies are light brown. Allow to cool for 5 minutes. Then transfer to wire racks.
- Melt chocolate chips in microwave on 50 percent power. Drizzle cookies with chocolate. Sprinkle with extra toasted coconut.
These cookies are now on my cravings list!
Mine too! Thanks Jocelyn 🙂
YUM! I am totally looking forward to making these delicious cookies!
Yay! If you do get a chance to try them, let me know how they turn out
Oh, I have a weak spot when it comes to coconut! Your cookies look marvelous!!!
Me too! Thanks for visiting, Liz!
Coconut!! Coconut!! That’s my kryptonite so of course I love these cookies 🙂
Thanks Zainab! Coconut is awesome 😉
These look amazing. And burning coconut. OMG all the time! I always end up under toasting it for that reason. Love these cookies!
I actually hadn’t toasted coconut for a couple of years afraid I would burn it again. This time I caught it just in time. Thanks for visiting, Dorothy!
Yum!! All you had to say was toasted coconut! These cookies look amazing! I want the whole batch 🙂
Thanks Kelly! They were whole batch eating good 😉
I WANT THESE IN MY TUMMY NOW! they look so good!
Haha! Thanks Kelsey!
I love samoas. These turned out perfect!
Thanks Julia! You are too sweet 🙂
Fork on fire in the microwave? That is scary! But I am sure glad that it didn’t prevent you from making these cookies. I can’t get enough of coconut and would love a few cookies for a special treat!
It was so silly, Ashley! I was melting chocolate and stirred it and then left the fork in and put it back in the microwave. It was only on “fire” for like a second. I could take a few of these now, too!
Ugh, I can’t even count the amount of times I’ve burned coconut! One minute it’s underdone and the next it’s burnt to a crisp. But these cookies are totally worth trying my hand at toasted coconut again! So good.
Thanks Michelle! Coconut is tricky to work with, but so worth it 🙂
These are such delicious cookies!
Thank you, Julianne!
haha oh gosh, I’m such a klutz in the kitchen! I feel your pain 🙂
Toasted coconut anything is soooo right up my alley! These cookies look awesome!
Thanks Ashley! At least our clumsiness doesn’t keep us from cooking/baking up a storm 😉