After baking a red wine velvet cake for my father on Father’s Day, I had the idea for a fantastic recipe. Apply a white chocolate ganache to the cookies when they have cooled.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 8 mins |
| Additional Time: | 12 mins |
| Total Time: | 35 mins |
| Servings: | 48 |
| Yield: | 4 dozen cookies |
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups butter, softened
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 cups finely-ground cornmeal (such as Goya® Fine Yellow Corn Meal)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 lime, zested
- ½ cup shredded coconut
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon coconut-flavored rum (such as Bacardi® Coconut™)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease several baking sheets, or line with parchment paper.
- Beat the butter and sugar together in a bowl until the mixture is soft and creamy. Beat in the egg until well blended. Stir in the cornmeal about 1/4 cup at a time, stirring to blend well after each addition, then stir in the flour, baking soda, lime zest, coconut, salt, and rum until the mixture forms a soft dough. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto the prepared baking sheets about 2 inches apart.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the edges just turn golden, 8 to 12 minutes, and allow cookies to cool on the baking sheets before removing. Cookies are very fragile when warm.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 95 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 11 g |
| Cholesterol | 17 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 77 mg |
| Sugars | 5 g |
| Fat | 5 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I didn’t have the super fine cornmeal, so I used the Albers that I had on hand. Still delish, still light and wholesome, but admittedly a bit gritty at the end…we were ok with that and ate ’em happily. The butter content is what makes these amazing. I used unsweetened coconut, shredded real small, I think chunkier would have been more interesting and it could have stood the mini amount of sugar that comes with sweetened coconut. I will make these again, they are unique and satisfying.
This recipe is outstanding! My wife & kids loved these cookies, and I’ll make this one again soon. I thought the lime might be overpowering, but it was good.
I love these cookies! Not quite the same consistency as the normal cookie, but still I am happy with it. I doubled the rum (hehe) , and it gives it a little bite of a corn bread texture. I made it for our Mother’s Day brunch & everyone loved them.
These cookies were not a favorite, but I’m sure they just meet a required taste. Thanks anyways!