Fudgy Chocolate Kokosnoot Drops

Coconut in addition to chocolate lovers beware amongst a double dose of kokosnoot in addition to a double dose of chocolate inward these Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops, you lot won't last able to larn enough!

amongst a double dose of kokosnoot in addition to a double dose of chocolate inward these Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops

My hubby Mark is a beast of habit. Once he starts doing some quirky picayune thing, he keeps on doing it. Over. and over. and over. and over. and over again. Like when I create something, he pretty much ever says {picking, of course}, "Needs to a greater extent than jalapeno." Doesn't affair what I've cooked. Or if it's fifty-fifty remotely inward the spicy identify unit of measurement of foods. "Needs to a greater extent than jalapeno."

Well right away when I bake he's started saying, "Needs to a greater extent than coconut." Oy. As if nosotros needed 1 to a greater extent than quirky, picky picayune habit about here.

So I decided to bake upwards some cookies that inward no-way-shape-or-form needed to a greater extent than coconut. 'Cause they've got a double dose of tasty kokosnoot ...
Mmmm hmmm. These picayune Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops larn a double dose from kokosnoot extract in addition to sweetened flaked coconut.

And that's the perfect total of kokosnoot for them, I say!

Oh, but know what makes kokosnoot fifty-fifty improve than a double dose of the stuff?

Chocolate!

You only can't become incorrect amongst kokosnoot in addition to chocolate.

These fudgy picayune bites commencement out amongst a fudgy chocolate cookie dough, laced amongst kokosnoot extract in addition to chocolate chips, that gets scooped out in addition to rolled into balls ...

{As you lot tin see, I utilisation my cookie scoop to aid me out amongst this. I looooooooove my cookie scoop!}

The dough balls in addition to thence larn rolled inward sweetened flaked kokosnoot ...

... in addition to baked upwards into delicious picayune fudgy bites of coconut-and-chocolate heaven.

So I nation accept that Mark! ... With a double dose of yummy coconut, there's no agency nosotros should hear, "Needs to a greater extent than coconut."

Or jalapeno.

Fudgy Chocolate Coconut Drops

Source: Adapted from Taste of the South magazine, Dec 2013

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

1/2 c. butter, softened
1 c. granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 tsp. coconut extract
1 1/4 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 c. sweetened flaked coconut

Directions

With an electrical mixer, cream butter in addition to saccharide at medium speed until fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating later on each addition.
In a dissever bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, baking powder, in addition to salt. Add to butter mixture a picayune at a time, beating until good combined. Beat inward vanilla extract in addition to kokosnoot extract. Stir inward chocolate chips {Batter volition last pretty thick.}
Place kokosnoot inward a pocket-size bowl. Scoop out tablespoonfuls of batter {I utilisation a cookie scoop} in addition to gyre into or thence 1-inch balls. Roll each ball inward coconut, pressing gently to larn equally much kokosnoot to adhere equally you lot can. Place balls virtually 2 inches apart on a baking sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for virtually 9-10 minutes until kokosnoot is lightly toasted on the edges in addition to cookies are gear upwards {I similar to accept mine out correct at ix minutes thence they'll last on the softer side}. Let stand upwards on the baking pan for 2 minutes; take from pan amongst a spatula in addition to allow cool completely.

Makes virtually iii 1/2 dozen cookies.

Enjoy!

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