These Coconut Biscuits are so quick to make and so crunchy!!
All you need is a bowl and a wooden spoon. Within 30 minutes you’ll have your biscuit barrel full.
Why you’ll love this recipe
This is the ultimate biscuit recipe – fast, crispy and delicious!
If you need to fill the biscuit barrel fast, these coconut biscuits are for you! Perfect to pop into the lunch box or for a quick snack after school or work.
Store bought biscuits have their place and they are great at a pinch but if you want to know exactly what you are eating, we all know home baked is best.
If you are new to baking cookies and biscuits, this is the best recipe to make first because it is so easy. After that, try my small batch Chocolate Chip Cookies or these Almond biscotti.
For complete ingredient quantities and full instructions, please scroll to the printable recipe card bottom of the page.
Ingredient notes
Just basic baking ingredients are needed for this coconut biscuit recipe – butter, eggs, sugar and flour.
However this recipe is based on coconut and it is important to choose the correct variety. It must be unsweetened, desiccated coconut. That is to say, it’s the finely grated one with no added sugar.
Variations
Why not add choc chips, or nuts. Maybe some cinnamon or sub out the coconut with muesli or crushed cornflakes? Or just make them as they are….you will love them!
Instructions
So simple! What can be easier than melting butter and mixing with the other ingredients? This is a basic recipe.
- Soften the butter and stir in the sugar then egg and vanilla.
- Mix in the dry ingredients
- Roll into balls and place on a baking sheet
- Bake
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Coconut Biscuit Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup (1 stick/115 grams) unsalted butter soften
- 1 cup superfine (castor) sugar superfine or castor
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup all purpose (plain) flour sifted
- 1 cup desiccated coconut unsweetened
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- pinch salt
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350ºF/180ºC. Line two baking trays with non stick baking paper.
- Beat the butter with a wooden spoon then stir in the sugar. Add the egg and the vanilla. Mix well.
- Sift in flour, baking powder and salt. Then add desiccated unsweetened coconut. Stir well until thoroughly combined.
- Roll small balls about the size of a walnut and place a little distance apart on the baking tray. Press with a fork.
- Bake for 15 – 20 minutes, turning the trays once. The biscuits will puff up and then as they cook will flatten, that’s when you know they are ready and will be browned and crispy.
- Remove and cool on wire racks.
Notes
- Use 1 cup of self raising flour instead of all purpose flour and baking powder.
- Add ½ teaspoon of ground cinnamon or cardamom.
- Drizzle with melted chocolate.
Kathy
Sorry but this didn’t work for me! You say at the beginning that all you need to do is melt the butter and add the rest of the ingredients so that’s what I did. Can’t see where I can add a photo here but they spread till they were about 5″ wide, basically one huge biscuit in each baking tray. Very greasy too. So you don’t really mean ‘melt the butter and add everything else’.
Marcellina
Hi Kathy, I’m sorry to hear these biscuits didn’t work for you. Yes, the recipe is correct and works every time for me and many others (some have commented here) who have tried it. I can’t imagine what happened. These coconut biscuits are exactly as pictured – not greasy, crispy and about 3″ in diameter. Perhaps a different in measuring ingredients or maybe a fluctuation in oven temperature. Did you use butter or a butter substitute? Did you use unsweetened desiccated coconut? Sweetened desiccated coconut would cause a problem.
kitchendiva
Could be where you live its warm. I live in tropical climate and always chill my cookie dough whether the receipe asks for it or not. And Yes, melted butter does not work for us. We do not melt it completely , only slightly and once its cool, add the sugar and mix it properly before adding other stuff. Hope you try it and it works.
Aiesha
I absolutely love it , it is so crunchy
Marcellina
I’m so glad you enjoyed these biscuits, Aiesha!
Harriet
I am making these right now!
Marcellina
You’ll love these, Harriet!
Pattie @ Olla-Podrida
Oh, you are killing me here! I love everything that I see on your blog. I am now your newest follower so I don't miss anything, but you'll pardon me now while I go look at some vegetables. 😉
lalapea
Just making these now, they smell amazing, can't wait to taste them.
lalapea
Just making these now, they smell amazing, can't wait to try them.
Jasline N.
These cookies look so incredibly easy to make! I love coconut cookies, can't wait to make them!