Orange Coconut Cookies
Recipe from Cindy Esselman, a 40 plus year employee at Grassland Dairy, who enjoyed baking and eating these cookies with her family around the holidays in her youth.
Materials
- 1 cup salted Grassland butter softened, not melted
- 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon orange extract
- 2 cups white unbleached flour
- 11/2 cups coconut flakes
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 4 teaspoons orange juice more if needed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream the butter, sugar, egg yolk, vanilla, and orange extract with an electric mixer, (use ¾ cup of Grassland butter, put remaining butter away to use for frosting).
- Add remaining ingredients once smooth.
- Shape dough into balls- use a cookie scoop to help keep the cookies uniform in size. The dough is dry and crumbly, therefore you will need to compress it together with your hands.
- Place balls on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Flatten each ball with a fork (holding the sides as you flatten the cookie)
- Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes and let cool.
- While cookies are cooling, combine remaining 1/4 cup of Grassland butter, salt, powdered sugar, and orange juice, and beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
- Top your cookies with the frosting mixture and enjoy.
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