Obsessively Good Coconut Brown Butter Cookies
Coconut-lovers rejoice! I just discovered the cookie of all cookies for coconut lovers. I am obsessed. It’s also a cookie for butter lovers. And for those who love flaky salt. Sign me up. If you’re a lover of all three, like me, then you’re going to be obsessed. These Coconut Brown Butter Cookies that Deb Perlman aka Smitten Kitchen reverse engineered from the once upon a time City Bakery in New York City, are more than the sum of their ingredients. Close your eyes and imagine the toasty goodness of lick-your-lips brown butter combined with the crunch from salt flakes and lots of chewy coconut. Heavy on the butter. Heavy on the coconut. Not shy on salt. Obsessively good.
Coconut-Cardamom Cupcakes
Earlier this week my husband and I were just minding our own business eating dinner, totally oblivious to what was going on outside our windows. When we went upstairs to close the blinds, we were delighted to see snow coming down steadily. The next morning (coincidentally it was “Twosday” 2/22/22) we woke up to glorious sunshine sparkling across a blanket of snow and lighting up a stretch of dark Pacific NW winter days. I’m typically over the snow after Christmas but this time it felt like nature was giving me an opportunity to reset and start the year fresh with new hope. The wintry view also put me in a baking mood and reminded me that I had wanted (back in December) to make the Coconut-Cardamom Cupcakes from Sarah Kieffer’s Baking for the Holidays cookbook. Lucky for me, this recipe is listed in the “Beyond Christmas” section so I had all the permission I needed. Also, I serendipitously had some freshly ground cardamom in my pantry waiting for just the right recipe.