This recipe was created by me as a means of utilizing leftover panko. These larger-than-average bread crumbs are used to bread chicken, creating a healthier version of fried chicken that still has a crunch. Serve with the sauce of your choice.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 20 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 2 dozen cookies |
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- ½ cup milk
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups rolled oats
- ¾ cup shredded coconut
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with waxed paper.
- Heat butter in a large saucepan over medium heat; stir in sugar, milk, cocoa powder, and salt. Bring mixture to a boil until sugar dissolves, 7 to 8 minutes. Do not stir while boiling. Remove saucepan from heat; stir in oats, coconut, and vanilla extract.
- Drop coconut mixture by spoonfuls onto prepared baking sheet. Refrigerate until set, at least 1 hour.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 123 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 19 g |
| Cholesterol | 11 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 61 mg |
| Sugars | 14 g |
| Fat | 5 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Easy for a quick snack. Mine did not harden. I pressed them onto a sheet and cut into squares. They stuck to the wax paper, so maybe spray it with oil. I also added 1/4 cup nuts.
Total fail. Too runny. Cookies will not harden. Maybe would work in a pan but definitely not a cookie.
One of my favourite treats
I added much more coconut and I love it. My mom used to make exactly that recipe and I’ve been looking for it. Not as complicated as I thought. Perfect snack for me and I only use sugar substitutes for health reasons.
Everyone loved them!
Going through chemo at the time that I made these, it’s hard to find food that I enjoy tasting! So because I didn’t care for the large pieces of oats, the only change I made was using quick oats instead. My husband and my grandson couldn’t get enough!….Me neither! 🙂
Good and easy! Mine were still super-sweet, despite doing what other reviewers said and cutting down the sugar. Also, I suggest a name change to include “oatmeal” as these are more oatmeal than coconut.
Easy beezy
Simple, quick, tasty, and popular. I have added additional oatmeal and coconut and found it still worked very well.
Well, this was a fail for me, but they tasted SO good! I should have went with my instincts and not boiled it that long. I must have boiled too much of the liquid out. As soon as it was done boiling and I added the rest of the ingredients, I knew something was wrong. These were so DRY and crumbly it looked like granola when it was done. I tried to press it into a pan, but it didn’t work. We ended up eating it like granola by the handfuls. It was delicious!! I’m going to try again today. Maybe I’ll boil it on a lower setting or add more liquid. I’m giving four stars because it did taste incredibly good and none of the other reviewers had the same problem as I did.
Very good as written – got lots of compliments at work. It is a very sweet cookie though, next batch, I will lessen the amount of sugar & increase the amount of cocoa to balance the sweetness & chocolate flavors.
This came out too sweet and the bars weren’t solid. I would use half as much sugar next time and less butter.
Delicious and easy to make. Will be making them again in the future. I put them in a baking pan instead of dropping each one on a baking sheet, they were easy to cut and store in the freezer.
I’m glad I just made a half batch, cuz I’ve eaten half of it already – yum! I was going to add chocolate chips like another reviewer did, but I doubled the cocoa powder and it was plenty chocolatey for me. I added a little more coconut. Note: the flavor really improves after the hour of refrigeration – try to not skip this step.
Perfect…just perfect for an easy and quick cookie. My family loved this!
awesome recipe! i flattened out the mix into a pan to make bar cookies. i melted some semi sweet chocolate and poured on top. once hardened, i cut into bars. also added an extra tablespoon of cocoa since i love chocolate! next time i will double the recipe to make them into a more substantial bar cookie. thankyou for such an easy, delicious dessert.
My husband loves this recipe. I’ve made them in a a brownie pan with the chocolate layer like the one user suggested. I’ve made them replacing the white sugar with brown and they still turned out great. Thanks for the wonderful, easy recipe.
so tasty, great for someone like myself who has a sweet tooth. disappeared from the fridge within a day!
These are super. I was out of cocoa so I used a square of bakers semi-sweet chocolate. Poured the mixture into an 8×8 parchment lined pan. This mixture is delicious however I did add to it. I melted 3/4 of a cup of milk chocolate morsels and 1.5 Tbs of peanut butter in the microwave for 45 seconds and spread that over the top of the mixture. Decorated with sprinkled coconut, refrigerated and then cut into bars. The submitter is right about eating them all! Wow these are so addictive. Thanks bperry80