Delicious light and soft Lemon Coconut Biscuits
Here I am again sharing a delicious lemon recipe since I know everyone loves them so much and again I have a plentiful supply.
I have several variations of lemon biscuit recipes I will be sharing, this one is lovely and simple for those that like the combination of lemon and coconut together. Many of you love my Lemon & Coconut Slice (which is basically a lemon coconut brownie) so this should be another treat.
The flavours of this are subtle, it is a great balance of lemon and coconut where neither outweighs the other. For those of you that prefer a more powerful hit of lemon I will include suggestions in my recipe below.
Using pantry basics, I prefer to make this using my food mixer, it creams the butter and sugar so well, but for those that do not have one a strong arm and a whisk will get you there!
The ingredients are as follows
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Butter
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Sugar
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Lemon Zest
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Egg
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Vanilla
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Lemon Juice
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Baking Powder
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Salt
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Flour
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Coconut
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Yellow Food Colouring (Optional)
To make these is so easy!
I like to use the zest of a whole lemon, at least a couple of table spoons, if you prefer it more lemony add extra, most of the flavour comes from the zest.
I always add my lemon zest to either sugar or butter, to infuse the flavours, so that is the first step, creaming together the butter, sugar and lemon zest until pale and creamy
Then I add the wet ingredients with the salt and beat well to combine. Finally I slowly stir through the flour, baking powder and coconut.
Lemon baking is not always the signature yellow we would like to see so my trick is that I often add a little dash of yellow food colouring. It is not needed for anything other than looks so is totally optional. I use gel colouring, of which you only need a tiny speck blended through for a hint more lemon colouring.
I have used my cookie scoop to create even sized amounts of dough on the tray, this is a soft dough so if you prefer you can use two spoons to scoop and scrape small dollops of dough.
Sometimes I like to roll these into white sugar to create a crisper pretty finish, you can even roll in lemon zest and sugar if you prefer more of a lemon hit, but this is up to you.
Then we bake! These are a lovely soft cookie, you can cook it a little longer if you wish it to be crunchier, but I find cooking until the edges just turn the slightest hint of golden is perfect.
I hope you love this recipe for Lemon Coconut Biscuits.
Lemon Coconut Biscuits
Delicious light and soft, these Lemon Coconut biscuits are very easy to make.
Ingredients
- 115 Grams Butter, room temperature
- 3/4 Cups White Sugar (150 grams)
- Zest of 1-2 Large Lemons, approx 3+ Tablespoons
- 1 Egg, medium
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice, fresh, sieved
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 3/4 Cup Plain White Flour, 260 grams
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 Cup Coconut, 90 grams, desiccated
Optional
- Drop of Yellow Food Colouring
- Sugar to roll cookie dough balls in
Instructions
- Preheat the Oven to 175C Bake, 350 F
- Grease and line the baking tray, I like to spray with cooking spray then line with baking paper
- In a food mixer cream together the butter, sugar and lemon zest until pale and creamy
- Add to this the egg, vanilla, lemon juice and salt and beat well to combine
- Add the flour, baking powder and coconut and slowly fold this through, if you are using yellow food colouring add a drop at a time now and stir gently until fully incorporated
- Scoop tablespoon sized balls onto the prepared tray. The mixture is soft, so you may wish to use a spoon to scoop and one to shape or a cookie scoop
- (If rolling in sugar add this to a small bowl, then drop in a dollop of mixture and then roll carefully into the sugar then roll into a ball shape and pop on the prepared tray)
- There is no need to press the balls of dough down.
- Place in the preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes, or until very lightly golden at the edges
- Remove from the oven, allow to cool on the tray for 10 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to completely cool
- Store in an airtight container
- Enjoy!
Notes
Recipe Adapted from King Arthur Baking
It is as easy as that! Be sure to let me know what you think in the comments below when you make them.
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Happy Baking!
Anna
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Lyndsey Stafford says
Made these today and they are yummie. Thank you for your easy to follow recipe.
Mark Nicholas says
Made them, at age 67 my first biscuit!
Got the tick from my wife of 51 years.
However, on clicking the print recipe button the recipe misses items 5 & 6.
I’ve tried all manner of opening in Chrome etc etc with no luck.
Yours is not the only site that does this. It occurs when recipe extends across pages.
Fyi
justamumnz says
Thank you Mark, I am so pleased you liked them! That is truly strange, it looks ok from my end but I wonder if it is due to it being cut off when it prints the bottom of one page and the top of another?
Anne says
Unfortunately we can’t eat coconut due to food allergies, is there anything we can replace this with in your wonderful recipe.
It looks so tasty and we enjoy lemon.
justamumnz says
It is a bit integral to this recipe and I have not tested it without at this stage as I think it would not have the same quality of taste. Perhaps check out my Lemon Shortbread biscuits?