Desserts
Coconut Biscuits
An easy coconut biscuit recipe for a sweet treat, made with simple ingredients you likely already have at home.
Coconut biscuits with an easy recipe for a sweet treat that's no more delicious and made with simple ingredients available at home.
Ingredients
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- 100 g butter, or 1/2 cup, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup fine sugar
- 1/2 cup cornstarch
- 1/2 cup liquid milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp cocoa / optional
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- Filling
- 1 1/2 cups shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup apricot jam
- Coating
- 2 cups shredded coconut or coarsely ground cornflakes
- Apricot jam
- Coating
- Dip the biscuits in apricot jam, then in coconut or coarsely ground cornflakes.
- Note: The apricot jam can be thinned with a little water if it is too stiff.
- A coconut biscuit recipe from our friend and cook, Shou Tabkhin El Youm.
- For more easy Arabic sweets from Ruwaida, click on Zainab Fingers Macarons
- Click the link to make Orange Cake
Method
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- In a bowl, combine the butter, vanilla, and sugar and beat with a hand mixer.
- Add the oil and beat, then add the milk and beat. Add the cornstarch, cocoa, and baking powder and beat, then add 2 cups of the flour and knead to bring the dough together. If needed, add the remaining flour gradually as needed. You can stop adding flour once the dough reaches the desired consistency: soft and smooth.
- Cover the dough and let it rest for 30 minutes.Timers: 30 min
- Meanwhile, prepare the filling. In a bowl, add the coconut, then add the apricot jam one spoonful at a time and mix until a dough forms that can be rolled into balls.
- Shape the biscuit dough into balls slightly smaller than a walnut. Roll the coconut-apricot filling into balls smaller than the dough balls.
- Flatten each dough ball in the palm of your hand, place a filling ball inside, then seal the dough well over the filling and shape it into a round ball.
- Continue shaping the rest the same way until all the mixture is used, then arrange the balls in a baking tray.
- Place the tray in a preheated oven, with heat from the top and bottom, at 180°C. Put it on the middle rack and bake the biscuits for only 12 minutes.Timers: 12 min
- Once the biscuits have cooled, serve them or coat them before serving.
Recipe tags
DessertsInternationalVegetarianEgg free
Notes and serving ideas
- Zainab Fingers Macarons
- Orange Cake
