Chocolate Coconut Snowflakes

I was thinking of snowball cookies, but I wanted chocolate coconut ones. It turns our my recipe makes chocolate coconut snowflakes.

 

Ingredients:

• .5 cup (113g, one stick) unsalted butter softened
• 1 cup (226g) coconut oii
• .75 cup (90g) powdered sugar
• .5 cup (40g) unsweetened cocoa powder 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 cups (375g) all-purpose flour 
• .5 teaspoon salt
• 1.25 cups (7.5 ounces, 190 grams) mini semi-sweet chocolate chips (I chopped up regular chips)
• Additional powdered sugar for rolling (about 1 – 1 1/2 cups)
    
  

Instructions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 350°. Line three 13" x 18" baking sheets with Silpat mats or parchment paper.
2. Mix butter, coconut oil, 1 cup powdered sugar, cocoa, and vanilla with a stand mixer until very well mixed in. (It won't get fluffy.)
3. Mix salt in flour, then mix into cocohttps://www.crazyforcrust.com/double-chocolate-snowball-cookies/a mixuntil the dough comes together. 
4. Stir in the chocolate chips. 
5. If dough is too soft, chill it until you can work it easily with your hands.
6. Scoop 1 tablespoon balls of dough (I used my small cookie scoop)
7. and place on prepared cookie sheet.
8. Bake cookies for 7-10 minutes until bottoms are just slightly brown and the tops are no longer glossy. 
9. Remove from oven and cool for 5-10 minutes, until you can handle them. 
10. Fill a small bowl with 1 cup powdered sugar and roll each cookie in the sugar until coated. 
11. Place on a rack to cool.  (Once cookies are cooled, you can re-roll them in more powdered sugar.) 
    

Carole's Notes:

Ok, I really liked this! Doug and Glenn liked them too.

The recipe is adapted from https://www.crazyforcrust.com/double-chocolate-snowball-cookies/ and https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/chocolate-snowball-cookies/