Coconut Cup Cookies
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut (about 4 ounces)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, melted, cooled
- 2 refrigerated pie crusts (one 15-ounce package), room temperature
- 1/4 cup (about) apricot jam or orange marmalade
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Spray 12-cup muffin pan with vegetable oil spray.
- Mix coconut, sugar, egg and vanilla in medium bowl.
- Stir in butter.
- Unfold 1 crust on work surface.
- Using 3-inch-diameter cutter, cut out 12 rounds from crust, patching crust scraps as needed to form 12 rounds.
- Press rounds gently into prepared muffin cups; bake until light brown, about 10 minutes.
- Drop about 1/2 teaspoon jam, then 1 scant tablespoon coconut filling into each warm pastry.
- Bake until filling is brown, about 15 minutes.
- Cut around cookies to loosen.
- Using spatula, transfer cookies to rack and cool.
- Repeat cutting, forming and baking with remaining crust, jam and filling to makes 12 more cookies.
vegetable oil spray, coconut, sugar, egg, vanilla, butter, apricot
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/coconut-cup-cookies-1574 (may not work)