Okay folks! it’s the hurricane season …and the hurricane florence is moving inland but we can’t just sit and wait for it can we? I don’t know about you but waiting and praying and just being anxious after prepping the provisions has got me all agitated .. now I’m looking for something soothing and comforting …and these lovely coco….nutty crinkly cookies are just the thing because coconut brings in the toasty comforting feeling of coziness that gets you through the hard times when we’re all unsure what is happening.
Today I chose to share a receipe that brings me much joy and comfort but theres always this dilemma of using the sweetened versus desiccated unsweetened coconut. Once you decide on what you have available you can make them otherwise you’re stuck looking at the picture and drooling!… Haha!
Trust me when I say this I knowwww the feeling absolutely. I was in the exact same position when my friend showed me the receipe of these cookies when she made and brought them over when I dislocated my knee….OUCH!
I was doing some leg exercises and lunges when one of the times i started getting up. Maybe my position was not all that correct …and my knee cap decides to pop out of place and my goodness excruciating!! Next time I promised myself really going to work on getting the feet angle straight. I finally realized why all those exercise trainers are always talking about getting your position correct …and saving yourself from being hurt!
Ok. Back to the receipe.. it requires unsweetened coconut and for those of you who are like me who don’t know where to find unsweetened desiccated coconut unless their in their native country ..and im usually like where in the world do i get unsweetened coconut.. because I hardly see it in the local stores… sure there are other stores like the old Arab or Indian store in the corner some where that will have them with superficially high prices…
Then kachinnnng! A bright idea pops in your head …and you think what’s the main difference between sweetened and unsweetened coconut? Sugar right?
I got thinking that ok if sugar is the only thing keeping me from making this receipe ill just start by tweaking the sugar a bit considering the sweetened coconut is just that right? ..
I was corrected once I put that into practice by actually using 3/4 of the sugar that called for in the receipe but that didn’t do it either.. it just made them rather scary looking flat cookies…
As you can see below;
They not only spread they clumped up together and not at all comforting.. just sad!
So
Next step was to brainstorm ideas.. and I thought my dough is a lil runny to be considered a cookie dough.. which lead me to believe that my wet ingredients were more than my dry ingredients. Also in a lot of cookies receipe all purpose flour is used so I added some in it and made the dough again and this time it took shape …and stayed there which I took as a good sign …and surely enough when I made medium sized cookie dough balls …and baked them.. they looked delicious! Take a look at these. ..
At this stage we can sprinkle some powdered sugar on top to give it that incredible effect .. that crinkle cookies have..
For the ingredients..
250 g sweetened coconut flakes
250g semolina
175g sugar
Pinch of salt
1 cup of oil
1/4 cup of flour
7g of vanilla essence
3 eggs
7g of baking powder..
And there you have it that little bit of flour just acts like the dry agent that brings the dough altogether to have the texture much more like the cookie dough we recognize..
So for the mixing up we just take all the ingredients and mix them up form a dough then using a cookie scoop .. scoop out some big mounds of dough and make them into medium sized balls …and patting them from the top and baking them in a preheated oven at 375f for about 15 to 20 mins depending on your oven. It took me 18 mins to get to that lovely golden color.. then take some powdered sugar and sprinkle it on top for some extra flourish!
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