EASY SWEET COCONUT COOKIES

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Sweet coconut cookies everyone will LOVE! It does not make many cookies so if you have a hankering for them, it's best to double the batch.

Provided by MissWriteForLife

Categories Desserts Cookies Fruit Cookie Recipes Coconut

Time 30m

Yield 20

Number Of Ingredients 9

Ingredients

¾ cup white sugar
½ cup vegetable shortening
1 egg
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sifted all purpose flour
2 tablespoons sifted all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup flaked coconut

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease baking sheets.
With an electric mixer, cream together the sugar, vegetable shortening, egg, and vanilla extract in a bowl until light and fluffy. Sift 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons of flour together with the baking powder and salt in a bowl, and stir the flour mixture into the creamed mixture; mix in the coconut until thoroughly combined. Drop the dough by teaspoons onto the prepared baking sheets.
Bake in the preheated oven until very lightly browned, about 10 minutes; allow cookies to cool on sheets for about 1 minute before removing to finish cooling on baking racks.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 120.8 calories, Carbohydrate 14.9 g, Cholesterol 9.3 mg, Fat 6.5 g, Fiber 0.6 g, Protein 1.2 g, SaturatedFat 2.3 g, Sodium 67.6 mg, Sugar 8.9 g