Melt-in-your mouth texture in this simple coconut cookie. Baker’s ammonia (see note*, below) is essential to achieving this amazing texture.
Ingredients
1 cup solid vegetable shortening (or half shortening, half margarine) at room temperature
1/2 cup butter at room temperature
2 cups granulated sugar
2 teaspoons bakers ammonia or finely-ground ammonium carbonate (see note*)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup grated angel flake coconut (packed)
powdered sugar (optional, not pictured)
Directions
- Pre-heat oven to 300F. Mix all ingredients together. Roll into 1-inch balls and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Space apart a good distance on your baking sheet (these will spread). Bake for 20 minutes. If desired, roll in powdered sugar when cooled (not pictured).
Notes
- * This cookie absolutely requires baker’s ammonia (ammonium carbonate) to achieve the intended, melt-in-your-mouth texture. Baker’s ammonia is a leavening that is much easier to find in Europe than in North America, but baking powder and baking soda are NOT alternatives to baker’s ammonia. You can make these with baking powder if you want, you just won’t achieve the intended consistency (you will get a chewier cookie). Baker’s ammonia is inexpensive and very easy to find on Amazon or specialty baking sites such as King Arthur Flour. IMPORTANT: this product produces a strong ammonia smell while baking. This is completely normal…do not panic. When the cookies come out of the oven, there will be no trace of this odor in the final product.
- “Princess Gems” is an Americanized name of the Swedish Dream cookie, properly called Drömmar. We have two other Drömmar recipes on this site, one traditional, and one with nuts.