Festive coconut Cookies

Festive coconut Cookies

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg separated
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
2/3 cup coconut
Mint and cherry or strawberry jam or jel ly
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream butter with sugar, egg
yolk and vanilla in large bowl at medium speed with electri c
mixer. Combine flour with salt and baking powder. Add to
creamed mixture. Blend well. Form into balls about -1inch in
diameter. Beat egg white until slightly frothy. Dip dough
ball in egg white , and roll in coconut. Place on grease d
baking sheets. Make a small hole in each center of each
cookie using thumb. Place ½ teaspoon cherry or strawberr y
Jam in half of cookies and mint jelly in remaiinng cookies.
Bake at 375 for 8-9 minutes or until coconut begins to brown .
Cool on baking sheets about 2 minutes. Remove to wrei racks.
Makes about 2 dozen .
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