Best Coconut Pineapple Cookies Recipes

CRUSHED PINEAPPLE AND COCONUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Spread pecans and coconut onto a baking sheet.
• Toast in the preheated oven until coconut is very light golden brown and pecans become fragrant, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool, about 10 minutes. Leave the oven on.
• Pulse oats in a blender or food processor until slightly ground.
• Mix brown sugar, white sugar, and butter together in a bowl. Add pineapple, egg, vanilla extract, and almond extract.
• Mix oats, flour, baking powder, and salt together in a small bowl; mix into the wet ingredients. Stir in toasted coconut and pecans. Drop by spoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on the cookie sheets for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

KATHY'S PINEAPPLE-COCONUT OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Whisk together flour, soda, powder and salt; set aside.
• Cream together butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla - mixing on high until light and fluffy.
• Stir the flour mixture into the creamed mixture, until well combined.
• Stir in oats, pineapple and coconut.
• Using a 2 tablespoon cookie scoop, drop dough 2 inches apart onto a baking sheet (I always use a silpat on my baking sheets - you never have burned cookies with one!).
• Bake 12 minutes on center rack until golden.
• Remove from oven, cool on sheet for about 1 minute, then transfer to a wire rack to cool. Store in airtight container.

PINEAPPLE-COCONUT DROP (SOFT) COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream shortening and sugars.
• Add beaten egg mixed with vanilla.
• Sift flour with soda and salt.
• Add to mixture alternately with the pineapple and coconut.
• Mix all items together--well, till it makes a soft batter.
• Drop by rounded teaspoon onto greased cookie sheets.
• Leave space for spreading.
• Bake at 375°F for about 10 minutes or until done.
• Be careful not to overbake this cookie.

PINEAPPLE-COCONUT THUMBPRINT COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Prepare dough from Easy Cut-Out Cookies recipe.
• Roll into 40 balls, using about 1 Tbsp. dough for each ball. Roll, 1 at a time, in coconut until evenly coated on all sides with coconut.
• Place, 1 inch apart, on baking sheets sprayed with cooking spray. Use thumb to indent centers; fill with preserves, adding about 1/4 tsp. preserves to each indentation.
• Bake 13 to 15 min. or until coconut is lightly toasted. Cool 3 min. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.

COCONUT PINEAPPLE COOKIES

Steps:

• In medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt. In large bowl, beat butter and both sugars with electric mixer on medium speed 3 minutes or until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and egg. On low speed, gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, beating until blended. Stir in oats, coconut and pineapple. Cover and refrigerate dough 1 hour.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Onto ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough by tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks.

PINEAPPLE COCONUT COOKIES / CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degree F.
• 2. In a large bowl; cream together the crisco, sugar, salt and extract. Beat till fluffy and well mixed.
• 3. Add the eggs and pineapple, mix till blended well.
• 4. Add the flour, lemon juice and soda; mix until all is well incorporated. Stir in the coconut.
• 5. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. ( Can make smaller, just adjust the baking time.) Bake for 10 - 12 minutes.
• 6. Remove from sheet after a few minutes onto racks to cool.
• 7. Frosting: In a bowl, mix sugar, extract, juice, cream cheese, pineapple, food coloring and milk. Add more milk if too thick.
• 8. Slather the frosting onto the cookie tops..now, decorate as desired or leave as is. I enjoyed dressing mine up a bit....enjoy these moist delicious cookies.

PINEAPPLE COCONUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time until fluffy. Beat in coconut extract. mix coconut and pineapple. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Stir this mixture into the cream mixture, form a ball and wrap in plastic. Chill for two hours. Roll cookie dough, by the 1/4 cup into a ball; flatten top of each cookie. Bak in oven for 7 minutes. Remove to a rack and cool completely. 18-20 large cookies.

FLOURLESS PINEAPPLE COCONUT COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large skillet, preferably non-stick, heat the crushed pineapple and it's juice over moderate heat until the liquid has evaporated. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, until the pineapple gets sticky and begins to brown and caramelize.
• Remove from heat when it's reduced to 2/3 cup.
• In a large mixing bowl, stir together the coconut, sugar, egg whites and vanilla extract.
• Mix in the pineapple. (Batter can be refrigerated at this point for up to one week).
• To bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 375 degrees and adjust the oven rack to the center position.
• On a parchment-paper covered baking sheet, form the dough into 1 1/2-inch tall pointed mounds, squeezing the dough with your fingertips to form little pyramids.
• Bake the cookies for 14 minutes or until the cookies are browned up the sides, rotating the baking sheet midway through baking (the tips may burn slightly, which is fine).
• 7. Cool the cookies before serving.

PINEAPPLE-COCONUT COOKIES

Steps:

• * Use Four-In-One Cookies (recipe below) as the base for this variation. Four-In-One Cookies * Heat oven to 375° F. Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda. In mixer bowl cream together brown sugar, butter, shortening, egg, and vanilla until light and fluffy blend in dry ingredients. Drop by teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on greased cookie sheets and bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Let stand 30 seconds remove to wire rack and cool. Pineapple-Coconut Cookies:Prepare the Four-In-One dough but add 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger into the dry ingredients. Add 1 cup flaked coconut, 1/2 cup well drained crushed pineapple, and 1/2 cup chopped walnuts. Proceed as for the Four-In-One recipe.