I regularly bake cakes and loaves of bread but very rarely cookies. Maybe it’s because you can get such a wide range in the supermarket; or perhaps it’s because they can be fiddly to make. Anyway, I really fancied something different so I made a batch of these oatmeal coconut cookies.
THEY WERE ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS! Pah to supermarket-bought from now on!
I found the recipe in old favourite cookbook, Baking – Simple Cookery Series.
Oatmeal Coconut Cokies
Ingredients
- 225 g/8oz butter or margarine
- 125 g/4oz soft light brown sugar
- 125 g/4oz caster sugar
- 1 large egg lightly beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 225 g/8oz plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 125 g/4oz rolled oats
- 75 g/3oz desiccated coconut
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4, 10 minutes before baking. Lightly grease a baking sheet
- Cream together the butter and sugars until light & fluffy
- Gradually stir in the egg and vanilla essence and beat until well blended
- In another bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda
- Add to the butter & sugar mixture and beat together until smooth. Fold in the rolled oats and coconut with a metal spoon or rubber spatula (I found the mix too stiff for a rubber spatula)
- Roll heaped teaspoonfuls of the mixture into balls and place on the prepared baking sheet about 5cm/2ins apart and flatten each ball slightly with the heel of the hand
- Transfer to the preheated oven and bake for 12-15 minutes, until just golden
- Remove from the oven and transfer the biscuits to a wire rack to completely cool
Despite being a greedy pair, we can't polish off 40 cookies in the 3 or 4 days that they remain fresh. I cooked half the batch and put the other post-flattened, pre-baked cookies in the freezer. I put them on a wire rack to freeze (they'd stick like glue to a baking sheet if used) then transferred them to a zip-lock freezer bag. To make the next batch just allow the cookies to defrost for about half an hour before baking as normal.
ooh, they look and sound delicious, my daughter love coconut. Thanks for the recipe!
Thank you for recipe, I baked them this morning and they turned out perfectly. Amazing cookies!
Glad you liked them – don't they make the kitchen smell divine when they're in the oven?!
Since we live in a small appartment and is warm at the moment I baked them on my balcony in a small hot air oven, I think even my neighbours where curious about divine smell indeed 🙂
I loved them warm too, so good mmmmm…thank you kindly, again – greetings from Utrecht!
Baking al fresco – great idea!