Coconut Cookies With Cream Cheese Frosting

5 from 1 vote

Coconut Cookies With Cream Cheese Frosting

These coconut cookies with cream cheese frosting are soft, sweet, and insanely delicious. Coconut and cream cheese lovers will fall in love with these!

Prep Time15

Cook Time12

Total Time27

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 177kcal

Author: Julie Maestre

Ingredients

1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon kosher salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup unsalted butter softened
¼ teaspoon coconut extract
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup light brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg room temperature
1 cup sweetened coconut flakes
1 batch cream cheese frosting

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Mix 1/2 cup of butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until well combined. This should take a couple of minutes.
Add the egg, coconut extract, coconut flakes, and vanilla extract. Mix for 1 minute.
Add the flour, salt, and baking soda and mix until the mixture turns into cookie dough. Make sure to scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl.
Using a cookie scoop, drop the cookie dough onto the baking sheet and bake the cookies for 11-12 minutes. Once they come out of the oven, allow them to cool completely before frosting.
Frost with cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut flakes, if desired and enjoy!

Notes

The cookies are pretty sweet on their own so I recommend applying a minimal quantity of cream cheese frosting on each cookie. Otherwise they might be a little too sweet for some folks.
Feel free to add a bit of lemon juice or a pinch of salt to the cream cheese frosting if it's too sweet for your liking but do keep in mind that cream cheese frosting is supposed to be sweet.
Allow the cookies to sit for 10-15 minutes when they come out of the oven otherwise they will fall apart.

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