Tuesdays With Dorie…Coconut Butter Thins

Don’t you find it frustrating when you are trying to make a recipe from a cookbook and there is no picture? I mean, how are you supposed to know if your end product is right? What did women do in the olden days and there were NO pictures at all in their cookbooks?

Maybe they didn’t make Coconut Butter Thins.

But that’s kind of sad, because these cookies are absolutely loaded with flavor. Seriously – the lime? Oh my. Butter, lime, coconut? Tastes like summer, and that’s niiiiccee. But I have no idea what they should look like. Dorie calls them shortbread in her description, but mine bear no resemblance to shortbread cookies. Those fork marks I made so evenly across their tops? Gone. Like, way gone. Cookies that baked for the recommended 18 minutes flattened into lacy little tuile-like thins. Cookies that I yanked at 15 minutes were only a tad thicker. But both tasted really great. So what do Dorie’s look like? I’d love to know.

After eating these, the Hub and I decided that these are more “decoration” cookie than “craveable” cookie. They belong on the top of a dessert, garnish for an ice cream sundae. It’s hard to deny that flavor, though. Okay, so maybe they are a bit craveable. A bit. Lot.

Aren’t you anxious to see how the other TWDers fared with their cookies? I know I am. Let’s go check them all out here. Oh, and the month of April? Not going to be good for getting a summer booty in shape with all those calories we’re going to be making. Do you think calories count if you eat them while walking on the treadmill?

Someone please say no.

Thanks Jayne of The Barefoot Kitchen Witch for choosing this ever so tasty cookie. Visit her blog. Sh’es got two cutie-pies living there, she’s started making dolls, and the woman can bake up just about anything she sets her mind to. Oh, and her photos? Top notch.

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