Coconut Thumbprints
"Posted by a dear cyber-friend, Nightrider. Her mom's been making these for at least 20 years, and they are REALLY REALLY good. The flavours are perfect for Christmas!"
- Ready In:
- 32mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
4 dozen
ingredients
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1⁄2 cup packed brown sugar
- 3⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 cups dried shredded coconut (dessicated)
- 1⁄3 cup finely chopped crystallized ginger
- 1⁄3 cup finely chopped maraschino cherry
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Topping
- 1 cup toasted dried coconut
- 24 maraschino cherries, halved
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F Cream together cream cheese, butter, milk and brown sugar. Sift together flour and baking powder and salt,and stir into creamed mixture. Stir in coconut, ginger and chopped maraschino cherries. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour.
- Roll dough into 3/4" balls, then roll each ball in toasted coconut. Press a maraschino cherry half into the top of each ball (or make an indent with your thumb and fill with jam). Bake at 350F for 15 - 17 minute.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
