Toasted Coconut Thumbprint Cookies. Store in the refrigerator if filled with lemon curd. Thumbprint cookies are always delicious, but these toasted coconut lemon curd cookies have extra tasty sweet and tart flavors on top. The recipe is simple, so even a novice baker can make cookies that look professional. Carefully and lightly re-press each indentation. For lime curd, in a small saucepan, whisk cornstarch and lime juice until smooth.

Whisk in sugar and egg yolks; cook and stir over medium heat until boiling. Here's to traditions, old and new, and cookies! As much as I love coconut, I love toasted coconut even more. You can have Toasted Coconut Thumbprint Cookies using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Toasted Coconut Thumbprint Cookies

You need 12 ounces of unsalted butter (3 sticks), at room temperaure.
You need 1 cup of granulated sugar.
It's 1 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
It's 3 1/2 cups of all purpose flour.
It's 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
It's 1 of large egg lightly beaten with 1 tablesoon water.
Prepare 7 ounces of sweetened flaked coconut.
It's 15 of fun size mounds dark chocolate coconut bars, cut in half.

These little thumbprints are rolled in coconut, and that coconut gets all toasty in the oven. Then, just add a simple caramel filling that's made with just soft caramels and cream. I have become a big fan of Werther's Original® Baking Caramels. I love the flavor, and they're so.

Toasted Coconut Thumbprint Cookies step by step

Preheat oven to 350 Line baking sheets with parchment paper..
Have mounds bars unwrapppped and cut in half, set aside.
Whisk together flour and salt in a bowl, set aside.
In a large bowl beat butter, vanilla and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture slowly and beat just until a dough forms and its all incorporated, press dogh into a mass with your hands.
Roll the dough into golf ball size balls, roll in egg wash.
Roll in coconut.
Place on porepared pans and bake for 20 to 25 minutes until golden.
Press a piece of mounds candy bar in the center of each cookie..
Transfer to racks to cool completely.
Place on platter and serve.

The caramel cream was simple to make and clean up. Roll smaller balls to make more cookies than stated. Decadent and impressive to serve, too. You can fill thumbprint cookies with anything you like including any type of jam, melted chocolate, ganache, caramel or lemon curd. In a mixing bowl, cream together brown sugar, white sugar and butter.