Saturday, May 14, 2011

Easy 4-Ingredient Coconut Cookie Recipe

Easy 4-Ingredient Coconut Cookie

Ever had a date with someone drop dead gorgeous and wondered how someone so gorgeous was so easily available. Once you make these cookies you will ask yourself how something so delicious could be so easy to make. 

As the name suggests these cookies are really easy to prepare, and it uses 4 ingredients only. And no, cake or cookie mix is not one of them. The cookies turn out to be very crispy and coconutty.

The recipe is in parts instead of specific measurements. I used a coffee spoon for measuring the ingredients. You can use any spoon, cup or holding vessel. 

You can use either butter or oil. I used oil and it worked perfectly. If you use oil I suggest that you add a small amount of milk or water to the oil so that the water/milk content is about 10-15%. If you don’t add water or milk the cookies will still be very delicious but it will be very very crumbly. Butter already has 20% water content while oil is 100% fat. Instead of water or milk you can add golden or dark syrup. The cookies will be crunchier and slightly chewy.

If you don’t have self raising flour, a substitute is 1 cup flour, 1½ teaspoon baking powder and ¼ teaspoon salt.

Ingredients
1 part sifted self raising flour
1 part sugar
1 part desiccated coconut
‘Enough’ melted butter or oil (about 1/2 part)

Directions
1.       Mix all the dry ingredients
2.      Add enough melted butter or oil to form a dough of the right consistency
3.      Bake at 180 degrees until golden brown and delicious, about 10 minutes

Easy 4-Ingredient Coconut Cookie

18 comments:

  1. I HAVE to make this. Hubs favourite coconut..and it is soo easy!!

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  2. Looks so simple and easy! Never thought I can make cookies with just 4 ingredients

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  3. They look so easy and delicious. Must try them. Missed breakfast? I hope you made double cookies, so that it wouldn't happen again ;-)

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  4. That's a pretty fancy looking cookie from just four ingredients. Bravo!

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  5. these cookies look fantastic. so simple yet so delicious!

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  6. wow, only 4 ingredients - that's amazing!

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  7. Coconut is a favorite of mine. I know I would love these cookies. Blessings, Catherine

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  8. Okay, so I clicked on this blog instead of the other one and Surprise! I found yummy recipes. Now I am going to have to alternate!! I can just imagine how great those crispy little cookies must have been.

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  9. So simple and easy making either a little or alot! I love versatile recipes like this!

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  10. thanks for the blog comment. :) wow that's so impressive that you are blogging about all of your meals (referring to your other blog!). i'm all about healthy eating and making it fun! your cookie sounds yum!!! :D i assume u are living in europe now? i LOVE the EU!

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  11. Junia: yes I am living in Sweden. Almost in EU, almost in Arctic circle:) Thanks for the comment

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  12. I'm your newest follower, because I love so many of your recipes. I'm making this coconut cookie tomorrow! Thank you.

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  13. I'm going to make these to....but can these be made with frozen coconut...that is what I have in the house right now...thanks...I love your blog, already found other things I want to try

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    1. I have never come across frozen coconut. If its frozen desiccated coconut it should work just as well. Thanks for visiting.

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  14. But how big is each cookie? How many tablespoons or teaspoons of batter did you use per cookie? They look like you used a cookie cutter because the edges are so sharp, did you? Or did you roll the dough in a ball and flatten them? Was the sheetpan sprayed with oil, did you use a silpat, parchment paper, plain non stick?

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    1. The cookies were about 2 inches wide. I think I used about 1 tablespoon of batter.
      To make the shape I used my improvised cookie shaper! http://easilygoodeats.blogspot.se/p/tips.html
      I placed the dough on a non-stick baking tray. There is quite a bit of fat in the cookie so you don't need to grease the pan.

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  15. Thanks so much for responding so fast! Ive been obsessed with coconut lately and want to make a cripsy coconut cookie for a party tomorrow. Happy Holidays!

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    1. No problems. Good luck, and happy holidays to you too

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