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Oatmeal Coconut Cookies
October 5th, 2009 Madhuram Posted in Cookies, Food Blog Events, Whole Grain Baking | 
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Last week my husband suddenly had cravings for coconut cookies. He picked one pack from the store, but I put it back in the shelf because if he does not like it, he will not touch it and I have to finish it. Moreover I try as much as possible to avoid buying baked goods for health reasons and also I don’t want to miss a chance to bake. So as soon as I came home, dug out my Cookies book and started searching for coconut cookie recipes. That book has 1001 cookie recipes (published by Readers Digest) and there were a lot of types of coconut cookies and I narrowed down to this one because it was simple to bake, used little butter when compared to the other recipes and also it included oats. As usual my husband did not relish these cookies immediately but started liking it very much after a couple of days when it was almost over and started asking for more.
Yield: 21 cookies
2 In a large bowl sift together the flour, baking soda and salt. Stir in the coconut and oats.
3 Melt the butter with the sugar and honey in a small saucepan over medium heat. Remove it from the stove and let it cool for 2 minutes.
4 Pour the melted butter mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well with a spatula.
5 Roll into balls the size of walnuts and place 1 inch apart on the baking sheet and flatten it slightly with a fork.
6 Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown. If using 2 cookie sheets, shift racks halfway through the baking to ensure even browning. Mine turned golden brown after 13 minutes itself. I think it’s because of the dark coated cookie sheet.
7 Let the cookies cool on the sheets until they firm slightly. Then using a spatula carefully lift the cookies and transfer it to a cooling rack to cool completely.
2 Light corn syrup was mentioned in the recipe. I had that in hand, but I anticipated that some of you might ask what can be substituted for it. So I used honey. I think either omitting this or reducing the quantity of sugar to 1/2 cup will also work if you want less sweeter cookies.
3 These coconut cookies spread a lot, so be sure to leave enough space while placing the dough on the baking sheets.
These oatmeal coconut cookies go to my Wholegrain Baking Event – Oats.
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November 13th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
These were wonderful, I only had buckwheat honey so I used that. I find the buckwheast honey very strong but a great ingredient in these cookies!
I’m glad you liked these cookies, Heather.
November 7th, 2009 at 3:37 am
Hi Madhuram
These cookies came out delicious.. instead of shredded coconut i used dessicated coconut powder..honey gave the cookies very nice flavour..now your coconut macaroons are next in my baking list
Thanks Rajeshwari.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:04 am
I tried this recipe with some of the modifications you suggested to reduce the sweetness for those of us using sweetened coconut. The first time, I cut out the 2 tablespoons of honey and the resulting cookie dough was not moist enough, difficult to roll into balls and when I baked them, they didn’t spread at all! My sweet husband ate them anyway, but I insisted on redoing it (at 11pm). So the second time, I kept the honey but cut back on sugar to half a cup and the result was much much better (looked almost like your photo!) I think the honey is necessary to get the right batter consistency so for anyone else who is trying to cut down on sweetness, leave the honey in and just make changes in the amount of sugar used.
Thank you very much Catherine for trying the recipe the second time too and for recording your feedback here about the honey. It will be helpful to so many of us who want to try the recipe.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
These cookies look yummy..am going to try them soon…I baked your wonderful apple and raisins muffins and they turned out very delicious…thanks for ur recipes…
Rajeshwari, you’re most welcome.
October 19th, 2009 at 6:58 am
That just looks so beautiful and yummy
October 13th, 2009 at 12:41 am
Hi Madhuram,
gotto give it to you – you always upload amazing recipes with nice photos! i find this to be an excellent post – the process is very simple, and the caloric value of the cookies is balanced by the addition of oats. my dad likes oats, so im going to make this for him
Thanks Yamini.