These White Chocolate and Coconut Cookies are a simple and easy oatmeal cookie recipe loaded with coconut and white chocolate chips. They’re the perfect cookie to customize for your favorite holiday. Your family is going to love these amazing coconut and white chocolate chip cookies.
These adorable coconut oatmeal cookies are everything a great cookie should be. They’re crispy and chewy, doughy yet fully baked. They are perfectly buttery and sweet and loaded with white chocolate chips and M&M candies.
How to Make White Chocolate and Coconut Cookies
These cookies are crazy easy, however here are a few notes!
- Soften butter. If you are planning on making these, take the butter out of the fridge first thing in the morning so it’s ready to go when you need it!
- Measure the flour. Be sure to use a measuring cup made for dry ingredients (NOT a pyrex liquid measuring cup). It seems like everyone has their own way of doing this. I personally use the scoop and shake method and always have. I just don’t have the patience to weigh my flour and leveling with a knife and tapping just seems so fussy. Just make sure you cook one cookie before you commit to an entire batch. Just a little experiment will help you know if you need to add another 1/4 cup of flour.
- Use LOTS of chocolate chips and/or candies. This seems self-explanatory. No need to go into detail here. Be sure to also save a handful of whatever kinds of chips/candies for the tops of the cookies after they bake. It really takes the cuteness to another level.
- DO NOT over-bake cookies! These White Chocolate Chip Cookies will not look done when you pull them out of the oven, and that is GOOD. They need to be just barely golden brown on the edges.
How Do You Freeze Cookie Dough?
You can do this 2 ways.
- Roll the Dough into balls– You can scoop the cookie dough and roll them into 1 1/4″ balls, lay them on parchment paper in the freezer until they are frozen and then store them in the freezer in a freezer-grade Ziploc bag. (It really makes it so easy to pull the cookie dough balls out of the fridge and cook when impromptu company shows up or you’re celebrating someone’s spelling test after school.)
- Freeze in Tupperware-Sometimes I don’t get around to rolling my cookie dough into balls. You can also store the cookie dough in small Tupperware containers. When you know you’re ready to bake the cookies, take the dough out of the freezer and thaw in the fridge for 24 hours before you need it. (You can also thaw the dough on the counter for 1-2 hours before it’s needed.)
Tips For Making The Best White Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies:
- Use room temperature butter. Don’t microwave the butter, it changes the way it responds in the recipe.
- After making the cookie dough, you can roll into 1 1/2? balls, lay in a Tupperware container, separated by a sheet of parchment paper, and freeze until you’re ready to bake the cookies.
- Use regular rolled oats for this recipe.
- Butterscotch chips or chocolate chips would be really yummy in this recipe too.
- Use whatever kind of M and M fits the current holiday. So cute!
Coconut and White Chocolate Cookie
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 cup Sugar White granulated
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 2 large Eggs
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 1/2 tsp Coconut Extract
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 2 1/2 cups Oatmeal regular rolled oats
- 1 cup Flour regular all-purpose flour
- 1 cup Shredded Coconut
- 1/2 bag White Chocolate Chips
- 1/2 bag M & M's It's fun to switch up the M and M's with the current holiday. (Valentine M & M's used here)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
- Cream together the butter, sugar, and brown sugar.
- Add the vanilla, coconut extract, and eggs, one at a time, while mixing.
- Mix in the oatmeal, shredded coconut, baking soda, baking powder, and oatmeal. Mix together. Add most of the chocolate chips and half of the M and M's. (I like to reserve some to add to the top of the cookies after baking)
- Drop cookie dough on a greased cookie sheet, 1 1/2" balls.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes or until the edges are golden brown. After you take the cookies out of the oven, add a few more M and M's and chocolate chips to the tops of each cookie. Let the cookies sit on the cookie sheet for 1-2 minutes longer and then transfer them to a cooling rack.
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These White Chocolate and Coconut Cookies are a simple and easy oatmeal cookie recipe loaded with coconut and white chocolate chips. They’re the perfect cookie to customize for your favorite holiday. Your family is going to love these amazing coconut and white chocolate chip cookies.
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