Coconut Cookies

COCONUT COOKIES

makes about 24

125g     Butter

120g     Caster Sugar

1pc       Egg (white & yolk separated)

1/2tsp   Vanilla Essence

150g     Plain Flour

1/2tsp   Baking Powder

25g       Desiccated Coconut

Lightly grease baking trays with butter.

Sift flour and baking powder together and add desiccated coconut to mix.

Cream butter, sugar, vanilla and egg white until light.  Add combined sifted ingredients to mix. Dust hands lightly with flour and roll out the dough between two sheets of plastic film to a thickness of 3mm.  Cut out with a cookie cutter into desired shapes.  Arrange on baking tray and brush top side of the cookies with beaten egg yolk.

Bake in a preheated 170 C oven for 12-15 minutes or until golden.  Cool on wire racks.