Best Coconut Lemon Meltaway Cookies Recipes

LEMON-COCONUT COOKIES

Lemon-Coconut Cookies image

Crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside--a lemon-coconut snickerdoodle cookie.

Provided by SCENT4U

Categories Desserts Fruit Dessert Recipes Lemon Dessert Recipes

Time 40m

Yield 48

Number Of Ingredients 10

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 ½ cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 ½ cups flour
¾ cup dried unsweetened coconut
1 ½ teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon lemon zest
¼ teaspoon salt

Steps:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
Combine butter and sugar in a bowl and beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition. Mix in lemon juice. Mix flour, coconut, cream of tartar, baking soda, lemon zest, and salt in a separate bowl. Add to butter mixture and beat on low speed until everything is well mixed, about 2 minutes.
Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of dough onto 2 ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake in the preheated oven until edges are lightly browned, 7 to 10 minutes. Repeat with remaining batter.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 94.7 calories, Carbohydrate 11.7 g, Cholesterol 17.9 mg, Fat 5 g, Fiber 0.4 g, Protein 1.1 g, SaturatedFat 3.3 g, Sodium 69.2 mg, Sugar 6.4 g

COCONUT LEMON MELTAWAYS

Coconut Lemon Meltaways image

These melt in your mouth cookies will please everyone. They can either be baked and dry on the outside or refrigerated and moist through and through.

Provided by Ambervim

Categories Dessert

Time 1h12m

Yield 1 Batch

Number Of Ingredients 10

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups almond flour (you can make this, or buy it, however most store bought Almond flour is not raw)
1 1/2 cups dried shredded unsweetened coconut (I used medium shred, but fine shred would also work well)
1/3 cup coconut flour
2 big pinch salt
6 tablespoons Agave (Maple Syrup or Honey will work)
4 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 tablespoon lemon zest
1/4 cup and 1 tbs coconut oil, melted
powdered sugar, to dust

Steps:

Preheat oven to 200°F.
Mix dry ingredients in electric mixer.
Mix wet ingredients in bowl or cup with a spout.
With mixer on low, slowly stream wet into dry.
Stream coconut oil into the mix.
Form into small balls.
Option 1.
Place in oven until they crack open. This should be about an hour, maybe more.
When done, they will be dry on the outside and melt in your mouth moist on the inside.
Option 2.
Just refrigerate for at least 1 hour. These will be soft and moist.
Dust with powered sugar.