Coconut Cookies
Coconut Cookies might be a good recipe to expand your dessert repertoire. This recipe covers 0% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe makes 48 servings with 19 calories, 0g of protein, and 1g of fat each. A mixture of almond extract, garnish: coconut and coarse sugar, coconut, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, primal, and fodmap friendly diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.
Instructions
Pulse coconut in a food processor until finely ground.
Follow recipe for basic butter cookies, mixing in coconut and almond extract after adding flour. (To roll cookies into balls, see cooks' note, below.)
If garnishing, sprinkle cookies with flaked coconut and coarse sugar before baking.
Instead of forming dough into a log and chilling, you can roll tablespoons of dough into 1 1/4-inch balls.
Bake, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until bottoms are browned, about 15 minutes total.