Black and White Chocolate Chunk Coconut Cookies

Name: Black and White Chocolate Chunk Coconut Cookies
Yield: Makes 2½ Dozen
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon salt; 3 ounces best-quality semisweet chocolate, cut into coarse chunks (you can also use ½ cup semisweet chocolate morsels); 1 large egg; ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract; ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons packed dark or light brown sugar; 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened; 3 ounces best-quality white chocolate, cut into coarse chunks; 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sifted all-purpose flour; ½ teaspoon baking soda; 1⅓ cups (one 3½-ounce can) shredded coconut; ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar

Preparation info

Makes
2½ Dozen

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Get in There and Cook

By Richard Sax

Published 1997

About

My mother remembers well cutting up a bar of chocolate to bake cookies when she was a teenager. Then, in the 1930s, the Nestlé Company (which had bought the rights to Ruth Wakefield’s recipe for Toll House Cookies) began manufacturing a prescored chocolate bar that could be broken into pieces just the right size for Toll House Cookies.

The morsels were introduced in 1939, and the rest is history.

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Snack
Dessert
Vegetarian

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