Cookie Recipes
Coconut Cranberry Chews
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups (3/4 pound) Challenge Butter (room temperature)
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups dried cranberries
- 1 1/2 cups sweetened flaked dried coconut
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter 12 x 15 inch cookie sheets
- In a large bowl, with a mixer on medium speed, beat 1 1/2 cups butter, sugar, orange peel and vanilla extract until smooth. Beat in egg until well blended.
- In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. Add to butter mixture, stir to mix, then beat on low speed until dough comes together, about 5 minutes. The mixture may look dry until it comes together as a dough. If its too crumbly to form into balls, the dough need to be mixed longer; it should be a smooth homogeneous mass.
- Mix in cranberries and coconut.
- Shape dough into 1 inch balls and place about 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheets.
- Bake until cookie edges just begin to brown, 11 to 15 minutes (shorter baking time will yield a chewier cookie; longer baking time will yield a crispier cookie). If baking two sheets at once in one oven, switch their positions halfway through baking.
- Let cookies cool on sheets for 5 minutes, then use a wide spatula to transfer to racks to cool completely.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from:
Challenge Dairy