Phoenix Nest Cookies
From goodeat 14 years ago
- 18 minutes to make
- Serves 4
Great tasting cookies!!!-----click on photos to see larger size pics!
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour shopping list
- 1 tablespoon baking powder shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 3/4 cup butter, softened shopping list
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese shopping list
- cup white sugar shopping list
- 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract shopping list
- 2 cups flaked coconut shopping list
- 2 drops red food coloring shopping list
- 2 drops yellow food coloring shopping list
- 1 cup chocolate coated peanuts shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- Grease cookie sheets.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt, set aside.
- In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, cream cheese, and sugar until smooth.
- Stir in the vanilla, then gradually beat in the dry ingredients. Divide the coconut into three separate containers.
- Color one portion red, one yellow, and leave one plain.
- Toss the colored coconut together with the plain.
- Roll cookie dough into walnut sized balls, roll the balls in the coconut mixture, then place them 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheet.
- Press 1 candy into the center of each cookie.
- Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven, then remove from the oven and press 2 more candies into the center of each cookie.
- Return to the oven to continue baking for another 4 to 5 minutes, until golden brown.
- Cool cookies on the baking sheet for a few minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely
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Sounds wonderful! A must-make for Christmas! :+D FIVE to ya!
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