Oats & Coconut Cookies

So it was a very dear friend's birthday yesterday. And I was excited  to bake a cake for her with lot of icing /frosting . Did not happen so as the husband is away on some work for a week , then the little one was not keeping well and finally I had to drop that idea. But my mind was not agreed to it, so i checked the pantry and found all the ingredients that required to make some cookies for her on her special day. I did taste one piece of it and found it quite ok barred the coconut flavour, which did not come out that well. Nevertheless i am happy as the friend liked them. So sharing this sweet story along with the recipe with you friends.

Ingredients:

Flour/Maida: 1/2 cup
Oats: 4-5 tbsp. roasted
Sugar: 3 tbsp.
Butter: 4 tbsp. softened
Baking powder: 1 tsp
Baking soda: A pinch
Dry grated coconut (mine was store bought): 3 tbsp. and 1 tsp to sprinkle on the top of the cookies
Raisins: A handful
Egg:1
Vanilla Essence: 1 tsp


Method:

Preheat the oven at 180 degree Celsius.

In a mixing bowl add the butter , sugar and mix well till it combines . Now add the egg and beat . Add the vanilla essence and whisk them very nicely.


In another bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda. Add the roasted oats, coconut and combine them all. Now in the above egg mixture , add the flour mixture slowly portion by portion. Mix them nicely. Add the raisins into it and combine all well into a dough like texture. If you find the dough a little dry or hard, you can add a little milk into it.

Grease the baking tray with oil or butter . Take spoonful of the mixture like small sized balls/small portions and keep them on the greased tray and flatten them gently with the back of the spoon keeping some gap in between them to allow  room for baking. Sprinkle remaining dry coconut and some raisins on top of each portion. Bake these cookies for 25-30 minutes at 180 degree Celsius  or till the cookies get that golden brown crust. Once baked , keep them on a cooling rack and keep in air-tight container and enjoy with your hot cup of tea/coffee and serve these crunchy cookies to your kids with their hot glass of milk.