Carrot Coconut Cookies
Makes:
38 Single Cookies or 19 Sandwich Cookies
Ingredients
• 2 cups Sugar
• 1 box carrot cake mix
• 3.5 cups Flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 cup oil
• 1 Cup Cream
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 Cups shredded Coconut - sweetened or unsweetened - for rolling before baking
Filling:
• 1 Container Vanilla Frosting
• 1 Block Cream Cheese; room temperature
Preparation
Preparation:
• Preheat oven to 350°F and prepare Baking Sheets lined with parchment paper.
• In a large bowl; mix dry ingredients, in a seperate medium container, mix the wet ingredients.
• Mix Wet ingredients into Dry ingredients until everything is well incorporated.
• Scoop out dough to form balls (Ice cream Scoop works great).
• Pour the shredded coconut into a small container; drop one ball of dough into the shredded coconut and roll to cover the dough, place covered ball dough onto prepared baking sheet (don't flatten the ball)
• Continue this process with all the cookie dough.
• Bake for 12 - 14 minutes or until edges are just slightly golden brown
• Take baking sheet out and let Cookies rest in baking for 5 minutes, then transfer cookies to cooling rack to cool completely.
• Meanwhile make your cookie filling; Mix frosting and cream cheese with a mixer until smooth. Transfer filling to piping bag, pipe filling onto the bottom of one cookie and place another cookie on top of the filling to make a Carrot Coconut Cookie Sandwich.
• Freeze or Refrigerate Cookies to keep them fresh in a sealed container or bag.
* Cookies can be enjoyed without filling aswell.
Enjoy!