A recipe for Coconut & Jam Cookies

A popular cookie recipe made for the guys at work – promised I’d share it before I left.

Ingredients (makes about 30 cookies)

280g / 10oz plain flour

225g / 8oz softened butter (salted)

140g / 5oz caster sugar (golden caster gives the biscuits a nice colour)

100g / 3.5oz desiccated coconut (unsweetened)

1 lightly beaten egg yolk

4 tbsp jam

1-2tsp flavouring

The jam & flavouring is your choice. I like raspberry jam and use framboise (raspberry liquer) for flavour. Strawberry, apricot or cherry would work well too.

Recipe

1. Preheat oven to 190C / 375F / Gas Mark 5.
2. Line 2 flat baking sheets with parchment
3. Put butter & sugar in a bowl an mix with a wooden spoon until creamy and pale coloured.
4. Beat in egg yolk and flavouring
5. Sift flour into the mixture, add coconut and stir until thoroughly combine
6. Scoop heaped dessert spoons of the mix and roll into a ball. Put on the trays spaced well apart.
7. Make a hollow in the centre of each ball (end of a wooden spoon works) and fill the hollows with jam
8. Bake for 12-15 minutes. Remove from oven and leave to cool on the trays for another 5-10 minutes. Remove from trays to cool on wire racks

Enjoy! They are very yummy 🙂