Easy White Chocolate Cookies
These white chocolate chip cookies are made with a combination of browned butter, coconut, and white chocolate — that’s a match made in heaven. The cookie texture is wonderfully soft thanks to the browned butter but there’s also tons of chewy texture from the coconut. The slight crunch from the white chocolate chips ties it all together. Sometimes white chocolate can read too sweet but since there’s only 3/4 cup of sugar in the entire batch of cookies, the sweetness in the white chocolate isn’t overpowering here. We couldn’t get enough of these lighter more delicate cookies that remind me of Easter, spring, Mother’s Day, summer, and warmer weather. Woo-hoo to that. If you like white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, you will likely love these.
What’s in White Chocolate Chip Cookies?
To make this white chocolate coconut cookies recipe, you’ll need:
Unsalted butter Egg Granulated sugar Light brown sugar, packed Vanilla extract Sweetened shredded coconut All-purpose flour Baking soda Salt White chocolate chips
How to Make White Chocolate Chip Cookies
First brown the butter. Just heat it until the butter melts and turns slightly brown with little brown specks in it. If you need a tutorial, I have a detailed one here. Add the cooled butter to a large mixing bowl before adding an egg, white and brown sugar, vanilla extract, and beating together. The batter won’t fluff up like normal batter because you’re used browned butter and not room temp butter. Stir in the coconut, flour, baking soda, salt, and white chocolate chips. Scoop into 16 mounds, freeze the dough for 1 hour to chill it before baking, and bake the cookies until just done. They may look underbaked when you pull them out but I assure you they firm up upon cooling.
Can I Use Regular Chocolate Chips?
Of course! But if you’re craving coconut-chocolate desserts, you might want to try one of the following instead: Loaded Oatmeal Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies, Coconut Oil Chocolate Chip Cookies, Almond Joy Cookies, or Mounds Bar Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
How to Store White Chocolate Coconut Cookies
Cookies will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 4 months. Alternatively, unbaked dough can be frozen for up to 4 months, and then baked off as desired, adding a couple minutes to the baking time if baking straight from the freezer.
Tips for Making White Chocolate Coconut Cookies
For sake of brevity, I am not going to rewrite everything I wrote in the baking directions below, but I do have lots of side notes that I believe will help you out a lot. If you plan to make these delightful cookies, my noteworthy highlights, tips, and tricks include:
Make 16 cookies, not more, not less (coconut and white chocolate are both finicky and can burn easily) Chill the dough in individual mounds, not in one big mixing bowl (too hard, literally, to chisel out later) Baking times can and will vary and 13 minutes for me doesn’t mean 13 for you. Watch your cookies and not the clock (I gave “how to tell if they’re done” tips in the directions) Rotate your baking pan once during baking to ensure even cooking Add a few white chocolate chips to the tops of each cookie immediately after baking (not before because white chocolate scorches easily and cosmetically it’s better after baking) You can freeze unbaked dough for up to 4 months and then bake off as desired later
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