Coconut cookies

I love these cookies and have no self control over them whenever I make this recipe. Therefore I only make them about once a year. Once you smell the coconutty, buttery goodness coming from your oven you will be hooked too. Very simple and easy to prepare. When I was baking with a 12 year old boy that I mentored at St Vincent’s Villa residential treatment facility we could hammer these out in 20 minutes flat from start to out of the oven finish.

1 3/4 cups flour
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 1/4 cup coconut
1 stick plus 6 tablespoons butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 360 degrees. Cream butter and sugar together, scrape bowl and mix in the egg, salt and vanilla until well blended. Add flour in two parts, then mix in coconut. Drop  rounded teaspoons of cookie dough on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes.