Hazelnut & Coconut Shortbread Sandwich Cookies

If you want to add more lacto ovo vegetarian recipes to your recipe box, Hazelnut & Coconut Shortbread Sandwich Cookies might be a recipe you should try. This recipe serves 22. This dessert has 166 calories, 2g of protein, and 10g of fat per serving. For 15 cents per serving, this recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 4 people have tried and liked this recipe. This recipe from Foodista requires coconut, flour, hazelnuts, and salt. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 15 minutes. Overall, this recipe earns a not so amazing spoonacular score of 21%. If you like this recipe, take a look at these similar recipes: Coconut-Lime Bars with Hazelnut Shortbread Crust, Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies, and Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies.

Servings: 22

Preparation duration: -1 minutes

Cooking duration: -1 minutes

 

Ingredients:

1/2 cup coconut, toasted

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 cup hazelnuts, toasted

1/4 teaspoon salt

cup sugar

2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Equipment:

hand mixer

food processor

knife

blender

bowl

oven

cookie cutter

plastic wrap

baking sheet

wire rack

Cooking instruction summary:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, on medium blend together sugar and butter until soft and light yellow, about 5 minutes. Meanwhile finely chop (either with your knife or in a food processor) the coconut and hazelnuts. Blend vanilla into butter and sugar mixture, then add salt and flour with mixer on low. Once incorporated, add coconut and hazelnuts and stir just until blended together. Remove dough onto a piece of plastic wrap, form into a disk, wrap and refrigerate for 30-45 minutes or until firm.
  3. On a floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8-inch thick. With a cookie cutter, cut dough into large circles. Cut out a small circle in half of the circles (preferably the best looking circles) using a smaller circle shaped cutter. Place all circles onto cookie sheets.
  4. Bake cookies 12-14 minutes until edges begin to brown, rotating sheets halfway through if baking more than one sheet at a time. If not, refrigerate dough between baking. Remove trays to cooling rack to let cool for a few minutes. Remove cookies from tray and place onto cooling rack to cool completely. Once completely cool spread about 1 tsp or more of raspberry jam onto the bottom circle cookies and top with doughnut shaped cookies. Dust with powdered sugar and serve.

 

Step by step:


1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, on medium blend together sugar and butter until soft and light yellow, about 5 minutes. Meanwhile finely chop (either with your knife or in a food processor) the coconut and hazelnuts. Blend vanilla into butter and sugar mixture, then add salt and flour with mixer on low. Once incorporated, add coconut and hazelnuts and stir just until blended together.

2. Remove dough onto a piece of plastic wrap, form into a disk, wrap and refrigerate for 30-45 minutes or until firm.On a floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8-inch thick. With a cookie cutter, cut dough into large circles.

3. Cut out a small circle in half of the circles (preferably the best looking circles) using a smaller circle shaped cutter.

4. Place all circles onto cookie sheets.

5. Bake cookies 12-14 minutes until edges begin to brown, rotating sheets halfway through if baking more than one sheet at a time. If not, refrigerate dough between baking.

6. Remove trays to cooling rack to let cool for a few minutes.

7. Remove cookies from tray and place onto cooling rack to cool completely. Once completely cool spread about 1 tsp or more of raspberry jam onto the bottom circle cookies and top with doughnut shaped cookies. Dust with powdered sugar and serve.


Nutrition Information:

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165 Calories
1g Protein
9g Total Fat
18g Carbs
0% Health Score
Limit These
Calories
165k
8%

Fat
9g
15%

  Saturated Fat
5g
37%

Carbohydrates
18g
6%

  Sugar
9g
10%

Cholesterol
22mg
7%

Sodium
28mg
1%

Get Enough Of These
Protein
1g
3%

Manganese
0.19mg
10%

Vitamin B1
0.1mg
7%

Selenium
4µg
6%

Folate
23µg
6%

Vitamin A
256IU
5%

Vitamin B2
0.06mg
4%

Iron
0.64mg
4%

Vitamin B3
0.71mg
4%

Vitamin E
0.45mg
3%

Copper
0.05mg
3%

Fiber
0.6g
2%

Phosphorus
20mg
2%

Magnesium
5mg
1%

Vitamin D
0.15µg
1%

covered percent of daily need
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