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Orange Coconut Cookies

Orange Coconut Cookies

Recipe from Cindy Esselman, a 40 plus year employee at Grassland Dairy, who enjoyed baking and eating these cookies with her family around the holidays in her youth.
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Course: Dessert
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup salted Grassland butter softened, not melted
  • 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon orange extract
  • 2 cups white unbleached flour
  • 11/2 cups coconut flakes
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 4 teaspoons orange juice more if needed

Method
 

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Cream the butter, sugar, egg yolk, vanilla, and orange extract with an electric mixer, (use ¾ cup of Grassland butter, put remaining butter away to use for frosting).
  3. Add remaining ingredients once smooth.
  4. Shape dough into balls- use a cookie scoop to help keep the cookies uniform in size. The dough is dry and crumbly, therefore you will need to compress it together with your hands.
  5. Place balls on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
  6. Flatten each ball with a fork (holding the sides as you flatten the cookie)
  7. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes and let cool.
  8. While cookies are cooling, combine remaining 1/4 cup of Grassland butter, salt, powdered sugar, and orange juice, and beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
  9. Top your cookies with the frosting mixture and enjoy.

Notes

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