Coconut and Mango cookie

I plan to share a lot of cookie recipes for this months mega marathon. One my boys can survive on cookies for breakfast and snacks and second it is a personal challenge. I cracked the cookie recipe much later than I had cracked the cakes or breads. I am still a lot jittery to move away from the recipes that worked.

Surprising the tougher recipes have worked - I blame my oven which is rather unfavoring to the cookies by either burning them off or turning them into chewy nuggets or hard rocks.

Coming back to todays recipe , it is from the Carribean islands , popular coconut and mango cookies.  I was unsure about using coconut at first knowing there are not many takers for this at my home. But then last month I had picked up the coconut flour for the first time which I was keen to try. The original recipe (which i had noted from a newspaper cutout) does not use coconut flour but uses dried coconut powder mixed with APF.   

The response to these cookies has been good for which I credit the mangoes , it is such a welcoming flavor. I plan to reduce the sugar to let the mangoes come

Ingredients
2 1/4 cup Coconut Flour / Replace with 2 cups of APF + 1/4 cup dessicated coconut
1 tspn baking powder
1/4 tspn baking soda (optional)
1 cup mango cubes 
2/3 cup castor sugar
1 cup softened butter 
1/2 cup curd / 1 egg yolk
1 tbsp vanilla extract
a pinch of salt


Method
1) Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
2) Add curd ,vanilla extract and salt next and mix well.
3) Now fold in the mango cubes by mashing them gently into the butter mixture
4) Mix the Coconut flour with baking powder and baking soda and mix it well
5) Add the liquid mixture to the the flour. Mix  it together to make a creamy mixture.
6) The cookies batter will be closer to icing or frosting batter. Use a spoon to scoop out and drop the cookies on the greased baking sheet
7) Bake them for 18 min at 180c . Let them stand for 5 min to harden.