Coconut Crunch
I bought a pack of Arnott's assorted family size biscuits and was really impressed with the flavour of one of the biscuits. The biscuit which captured my fancy tasted very much like a coconut crunch. I was trying to replicate the flavour but of course this recipe of mine is no where close to the Arnott's ones. Maybe instead of honey I should have used golden syrup. However, this coconut crunch tasted wonderfully crunchy and aromatic due to the use of gula melaka and coconut powder.
This is the block of cylindrical gula melaka/palm sugar that I used.
Ingredients: (15 pieces)
50g butter
40g palm sugar/gula melaka (chopped)
25g honey/golden syrup
100g cake flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp coconut powder
35g dessicated coconut
Extra dessicated coconut for coating
Method:
1. Cook butter, palm sugar and honey in a saucepan till sugar dissolved. Leave aside till lukewarm.
2. Stir in sieved flour and baking powder, coconut powder and dessicated coconut till a soft dough is formed.
3. Divide dough into 15 pieces and shape it round. Flatten it and coat with extra dessicated coconut.
4. Bake on a lined tray at 175C for 15 - 20 minutes or till cooked and golden brown.
Labels: Cookies n Biscuits
posted by Florence @ 1:41 PM
11 Comments:
Hi Florence,
I have been enjoying your posts. I'm looking forward to your specialties for this coming X'mas. =)
Cheers,
Daphne
Hi Florence,
I would like to try this recipe too. I like your cookies recipes, particularly because they cater to small batch baking. Thanks! How do they keep, I wonder?
Hi mycoffee,
These crunchies keep very well in an air-tight container. :)
yea small amount baking is good ;) i would try this out
Great. I have gula melaka, coconut powder and dessicated coconut. Was wondering how should I get rid of all these?
Thanks Florence for the recipe.
Hi Florence,
I made one batch on Fri and 2nd batch (this time I double the recipe) on Sat. They are now all gone. My son love the cookies.
Thank again for your recipe.
Hi jojong,
Glad that your son liked these crunchies.
My dd and her friends finish one whole tub within minutes too!
I will be making these and the cornflake cookies for the kids' xmas party.
i made it and find that it become really chewy in an hour and by next day, it was nearly impossible to bite it. need to dunk into milk to eat it. the taste is great but somehow texture is wrong. i substitued coconut powder with milk powder. could this be the problem?
Hi Florence,
Thank u for sharing this recipe. Would like to try it but can I substitute the coconut powder with other ingredients?
Cheers
dewynne (from KC)
Hi Dewynne,
If you substitute coconut powder with something else like milk powder then your crunch will not be as fragrant.
Coconut powder gives the crunch extra fragrant.
Try substituting with milk powder and see if it is nice! :)
Hi Florence,
I'm thinking of making these for CNY, something different from the typical celebration cookies. I was wondering if the coconut powder is also referred to as coconut milk powder or what Malaysian(I'm from Malaysia :)) called santan powder?
Cheers,
May
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