Coconut Snowflake Sugar Cookies
Coconutty, crunchy, perfectly sweet, and oh so cute! These Coconut Snowflake Sugar Cookies with no-fuss icing are the perfect cookie to bake this Christmas.
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 cup salted butter room temperature
- ⅞ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg room temperature
- 3 Tablespoons unsweetened coconut milk
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups all purpose flour*
- ⅛ teaspoon baking powder
- 1½ cups unsweetened shredded coconut
Icing
- 2 cups powdered sugar sifted
- 4 Tablespoons unsweetened coconut milk
- decorative sugar optional
Instructions
Cookies
- Heat oven to 350℉.
- Line 2 sheet pans with parchment paper. Set aside.
- With an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar.
- Beat in egg, milk, and vanilla.
- Add flour, baking powder, and coconut.
- Stir only to blend.
- Divide dough in half.
- Wrap half in plastic wrap. Set aside.
- Roll other half on a nonstick surface (marble, parchment, silicone) to ⅜ inch thick.
- Use cookie cutters to cut desired sizes of cookies.
- Place on prepared cookie sheets.
- Repeat with remaining dough, gathering and re-rolling scraps as necessary.
- Bake for 12 to 16 minutes (depending on cookie size), or until just starting to color around the edges.
- Cool slightly on cookie sheets before removing to wire cooling racks.
Icing
- Whisk together powdered sugar and milk until smooth.
- Dip or spread on cooled cookies.
- Sprinkle with decorative sugar, if desired.
Notes
*This recipe was written using an average of the dip and sweep method for measuring flour and the spoon and level method. If you are using a scale, you will need to add 3/4 oz or 22 g to the measurement for each cup of flour.
- You can substitute any milk for the coconut milk in this recipe.
- Try putting the shredded coconut in the food processor and pulsing a few times before mixing it into your cookie dough to make cutting cookies easier!
- Be careful to not over mix the cookie dough!
- Bake times may vary depending on the thickness you rolled your dough/the size of your cutter. The cookies should be done after about 12-16 minutes of bake time, but be sure to check on them! You can tell the cookies are done once the edges just start to brown.
- Be sure to bake the same sizes of cookies together to ensure even baking.
- Let the cookies cool ENTIRELY before icing them!
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookieCalories: 163kcalCarbohydrates: 21gProtein: 2gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 19mgSodium: 46mgPotassium: 44mgFiber: 1gSugar: 12gVitamin A: 165IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 6mgIron: 1mg
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.