Fruitcake Coconut Cookies Recipe
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 25 mins
Yields: 90 Cookies
If you like coconut macaroons, you'll like these coconut cookies as well.
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 300F/150C for 15 minutes. Line miniature muffin tins with paper liners.
  2. In a large bowl stir together the first 5 ingredients. Mix in the condensed milk. Fill in each cup with a tablespoon of the mixture.
  3. Bake for about 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Mine were done in about 23 minutes.
  4. Cool it in the pan for 10 minutes before transferring it to the wire rack for them to cool completely. You would have to store these coconut cookies in an airtight container for 24 hours before serving. (See My Notes)
My Notes:
  1. Use any nuts of your choice. I used chopped hazelnuts and walnuts.
  2. The one thing I wish I had done differently was to bake these on a cookie sheet and then serve it in miniature muffin liners instead of baking it directly in the cups. The disadvantage of baking these in the muffin liners is that you can't peel the cookies from the paper. It sticks to the liner. That's the reason the recipe instructs to store these cookies for 24 hours before serving because that's when the cookies peel off. So you have to plan ahead. So the solution is to line a baking sheet with parchment paper and drop the batter by tablespoonfuls and bake them until its golden brown. Once it is cool oven serve it in cute little colorful muffin liners.
  3. I stored these coconut cookies on a big baking sheet and covered it loosely with a newspaper because I didn't have enough airtight containers to store about 15 dozen cookies. Do not store them in the fridge because it becomes even more sticky.
  4. The original recipe uses 2 cups of condensed milk. I did the same for my first batch and found that the batter at the end had too much condensed milk than it requires making the cookies look like muffins. So when I prepared the mixture for another batch I reduced the quantity of condensed milk to 1 and 1/2 cups and felt that the cookies looked beautiful and similar from start to finish.
Recipe by Madhuram's Eggless Cooking at https://www.egglesscooking.com/fruitcake-coconut-cookies/