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Coconut cookies without eggs

Coconut cookies without eggs | crunchy coconut cookies | eggless coconut biscuits recipe

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Coconut cookies without eggs is a wonderful teatime snack made with flour, sugar and few other simple ingredients.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Resting time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Snack
Cuisine world
Servings 20 Cookies

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup all purpose flour/maida or atta
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter or desi ghee
  • 1/2 cup sugar or powered sugar or powdered jaggery
  • 1 cup desiccated coconut
  • 1 tbsp semolina/suji optional
  • 1/2 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • Pinch of salt

Instructions
 

  • Add butter and sugar in a bowl.
  • Whisk them with electric beater.  You can use hand whisk too but its time taking and demands strength.  Whisk till the butter turns creamy. If using granulated sugar, doesn't matter it is completely dissolved or not. So don't worry about sugar if it is still visible.
  • Put a sieve on bowl and add maida, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
  • Sift the ingredients into the bowl.
  • Add desiccated coconut and semolina.
  • Using a spatula mix everything well.
  • When everything is incorporated, bring all of them together with your hands. Remember, you just have to bring everything together and not to knead them to make a dough.
  • Take about a tablespoon or little more of mixture, bind it between your palm. If the dough is slightly crumbling, don't worry. Just try to bring it together on your palm. But if the dough is not binding together at all, add milk just by spoons to the entire mixture ti bind it. However we didn't need to add milk at all.
  • Make roundel of the mixture and then flatten it with the pressure of your second hand giving a round biscuit kind of shape. Make the round biscuits with entire dough likewise.
  • Arrange them on a baking tray lined with greased butter paper. There should be a little gap between all biscuits because their size will increase after baking.
  • Place the baking tray in refrigerator (not in freezer) for 30 minutes.
  • When you are 10 minutes away from baking, switch on the oven @170℃ for 10 minutes for preheating.
  • Put the tray in middle rack of oven with both the rods on @170℃ for 17 to 18 minutes.
  • Thereafter shift the tray to top rack of oven and bake at highest temperature with only top rod on. In our oven, its 230℃.
  • From this point, don't take your eyes off the oven otherwise cookies will immediately burn from top. For how long to bake cookies on top rack depends on the fact that how much time they will take in turning golden brown. It may be 1 minutes or 2 or 3. But be vigilant because its not going to take too much time. Ours were done in 2 to 3 minutes.
  • Once they turn golden from top, immediately switch off the oven and bring the cookies out.
  • Let them turn completely cool.
  • Eggless coconut cookies are ready. Enjoy.

Notes

  1. Instead of making biscuits shapes initially, you can first make a simple dough, refrigerate it and then shape it to cookies after 30 minutes chilling.
  2. Whole sugar will add much crunch to it as it doesn't melt completely even after baking. However you can powder it before using.
  3. Don't think that you can use salted butter and skip the extra salt added. Butter has high salt content than the pinch which we have added.
Keyword coconut biscuits, coconut cookies, eggless cookies