Lemon Coconut Snowballs

Submitted by Mom2Rose

"Source: Myrecipes - Cookie Countdown!"

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 2 dozen
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1⁄2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon coconut extract
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons grated lemon rind
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut, lightly toasted
• 1 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar

directions

1. Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add 1/2 cup powdered sugar and extracts, beating well.
2. Add flour, lemon rind, and salt, beating until combined.
3. Stir in coconut.
4. Cover and chill dough 30 minutes.
5. Shape dough into generous 1" balls; place 1" apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets.
6. Bake at 350° for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden on bottom, but pale on top.
7. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool 5 minutes.
8. Place 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar in a bowl, and roll warm cookies in powdered sugar, coating well.
9. Cool cookies completely on wire racks.
10. Roll cooled cookies in powdered sugar again, coating well.

Reviews

[StacieJG]

Excellent - made these for a cookie exchange - they were delicious! Thank you for sharing!

 

[kathleen.korfhage]

These tasted like flour on our tongues! I followed the recipe exactly. I don't know what I could have done wrong but these were awful. We tasted no lemon or coconut just flour.

 

[danelsorensen]

I absolutely LOVE these cookies. My only real complaint is that there was not enough. What is Myrecipes - Cookie Countdown?