Recipe: My Chewy Coconut Puffs Can Make a Wonderful Addition to Your Holiday Cookie Assortment

These have a cake-like texture and quite chewy due to all the shredded coconut!

When you are deciding which cookies that you plan to bake for the holidays this year, I do hope that you will want to include the one that I have for you today.  My Chewy Coconut Puffs is a delicious drop cookie with almond flavor that puffs out and possesses a nice chew to them.  

Furthermore, this recipe is not complicated.  Basically, you cream, sift and then mix before dropping onto your cookie sheets for baking.  In fact, you can speed along with this by using a small round squeeze scoop for this purpose.  The way that you don’t stick is by keeping a cup of cold water handy to dunk the scoop back in after you finish one and are ready for a new cookie.


My Chewy Coconut Puffs


1-1/3 cups of flour
1/4 teaspoon of salt
½ cup or 1 stick of butter
2/3 cup of sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon of vanilla 
½ teaspoons of almond extract
1-1/2 cups of grated coconut
1 teaspoon of baking powder, leveled


Cream the butter and sugar thoroughly until fluffy in your mixing bowl.

Add the eggs, one at a time and beat into the creamed ingredients with your electric mixer along with the extracts.

Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder in another mixing bowl.  Then add slowly to the creamed ingredients and eggs.  I prefer to finish mixing with just a wooden spoon.

The last ingredient that I add is the shredded coconut flakes and gently incorporate this until well combined.

Drop onto greased cookie sheets with either a small round squeeze scoop or using two teaspoons to deposit small balls of the dough. 

Bake in a 375-degree oven for about 10-12 minutes, depending on how your oven is regulated.  The cookies will lightly brown at the bottom.

You get about three dozen small cookies.

ENJOY!

The Perfect Holiday Indulgence for Your Sweet Tooth--My Wickedly Delicious Coffee-Almond Bars Supreme!

My Coffee-Almond Bars Supreme

The holidays are the ideal time to start baking all sorts of heavenly treats to have on hand like a variety of delectable cookies.  One of the best bar cookies that I ever made is this particular recipe for my Coffee-Almond Bars Supreme that I want to share with you.  

It is a shame that there is no way that you can taste this fine-textured cookie through the computer with its intense almond and coffee flavor, clinging to every crumb, enhancing the peanut butter and brown sugar taste.  Adding some yummy chocolate chips to the equation does further compliment those ingredients and one out-of-this-world bar cookie is born!  

My delicious Coffee-Almond Bars can be addictive!

Now I had made this easy recipe many times before with wonderful results.  However, I can honestly say Nielsen-Massey Vanillas pure extracts are so concentrated flavorings that it pumped up the taste beyond belief.  Any doubters to my claim, then I do challenge you to do your own comparison with your normal pure extracts and then make that recipe again with Nielsen-Massey Vanillas.  Once you do, I know you will want to have their wonderful products in your kitchen as well.  

By the way, this cookie does not have any eggs in it so don't think I missed an ingredient.  It does stick together. 

I will be sharing more incredible holiday recipes with you that I made using Nielsen-Massey Vanillas products in the near future like my sinfully rich Chocolate-Peppermint Mallow Pie! 

When you do start your cookie baking, I hope you print my recipe and make these to serve your family and guests.  They will be nuts about them--and you for baking these.

My Coffee-Almond Bars Supreme

1 cup margarine or butter (not spread)
1 cup of brown sugar (light or dark)
1 teaspoon of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas Pure Almond Extract
1-1/2 teaspoons of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas Pure Coffee Extract
2-1/4 cups of sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder, leveled
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1  6-oz. package of chocolate chips
1/4 cup of creamy peanut butter

All you do is cream your butter, sugar, extracts, and peanut butter with your electric mixture until well combined.

Add your dry ingredients and mix through before pouring in the chocolate chips.

Press into a greased 13" x 9"-baking pan and bake in a 350-degree oven for about 30-35 minutes, depending on how your oven is regulated.

Test with a toothpick or a slender knife to see if anything sticks.

ENJOY!

This is my Coffee-Almond Bars, uncut and fresh from the oven.