Coconut Drops
Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups Cuisine All Purpose Flour
- 2 cups freshly grated coconut
- ÂĽ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ cup raisins / currants
- Âľ cup brown sugar adjust to preferences
- ½ cup coconut milk / water
- ÂĽ cup cold butter cut into small cubes
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp coconut or vanilla essence
- ½ cup Cuisine Raisins optional
- ÂĽ cup Cuisine Mixed Cherries optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease pan or cookie sheets
- Sift flour and add in all dry ingredients - baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, cinnamon, coconut, raisins. Make sure it is well combined.
- Add butter and cut in with hands or a fork and set aside. Using the cold butter will give it a crumbly texture.
- Mix essence and milk together then make a small well in your dry ingredients and add the wet ingredients to it. Mix well (but not over mix) - the dough will be firm and tacky.
- Add raisins and mixed cherries to batter
- Using an ice cream scoop or 2 spoons, scoop out the mixture (about 2 inches in diameter or how big or small you'd like) unto the baking sheet and ensure they do not touch.
- Add a maraschino cherry on top (optional)
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown
- At about 17 mins or so, take them out and glaze with a simple syrup of sugar and water (1:1 ratio of sugar dissolved in warm water) and put back in oven for about 2 or 3 mins.
- When they're out, sprinkle with sugar as a final step (optional)
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Hi. I notice this recipe does not have any egg at all. Is the milk a replacement for an egg?
Hi my name is Sherry I wanted to ask can I use vegan butter for the drops?
Rock Cake and Coconut Drops are two different items. They are not the same.
Rock Cake has a texture almost like the drops. It has no coconut.
I just made these. The batter was too dry so had to add extra milk. Didn’t have raisins so replaced with dates. Wasn’t sure when to put in the sugar so added it to the dry ingredients. Mine didn’t come out flat like these ones but retained the ice cream scoop shape. They taste delicious though.
Rock Cake and Coconut Drops are two different items. They are not the same.
Rock Cake has a texture almost like the drops. It has no coconut. It is not a ‘drop’.