14.4.08

mm: coconut-pecan caramel sandwich cookies

martha mondays: coconut-pecan caramel sandwich cookies

welcome to the first showing of martha mondays! i hope you had as much fun as i did making these sandwich cookies. the photo in her baking handbook was one of the first things to catch my eye, and i'm glad i finally tried baking them. and i'm glad to have the company too! especially because this was my first time ever making caramel. wow. homemade caramel = sugar heaven. also, sticky hell :)



how did your cookies go? unfortunately i could not find a flower cut-out in the right shape, so i just made rounds. first lesson for me ... roll out dough in pieces. i seem to have the innate inability to roll out dough evenly 1/8 inch high across 10+ round inches. so next time, i will halve the dough before chilling so i can have smaller pieces to work with.



i had a lot of fun making the caramel. i wanted to use a squeeze bottle, but the plastic melted a bit, whoops! the canvas piping bag i have is too large. so i used a spoon and it came out fine, but the dollop and drizzle on top came out a little too heavy. of course i only show the ones that came out nicely, haha! but to me, my cookies came out a little too caramely and next time i will have to try harder at manipulating the sweet stuff. but to mr. mimi they were perfect.
and the taste? this is definitely a sweet cookie. but really yummy. it's a keeper! and it's great for the diet too. unlike, let's say, chocolate chip cookies which you can totally munch like five, six, ten in a row in one sitting ... you can really only handle one of these sweet babies at a time :)

online recipe can be found here with slight differences from the book (
in the book: 1/4 cup coconut and for the filling 1 1/3 cup sugar, 1/2 cup cream, and 4 tb butter). depending on what happens with this event, i'll post again with a round-up of anyone else who made these!

update: go check out alexandra at addicted sweet tooth to see her great cookies, including some with ganache filling!

frosted bake shop also joined us and made awesome looking flower shaped cookies! and i was just waiting until someone got around to saying ... it's a "good thing" :)



17 comments:

  1. Those look gorgeous and amazing! I am sure they were super tasty!

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  2. The first and last pictures are gorgeous! The cookies look wonderful and make me very very hungry!

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  3. your cookies look gorgeous. i love the color of your caramel.

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  4. I love the pictures! Another great variation from the original is your shaped cookie cutter for the whole in the middle - nice!
    Now that you wrote 1/8 inch for thickness, I thought they said 1/4 inch online... I will have to check since I remarked that in my post.

    Anyway, looking forward to the next one,

    Alexandra

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  5. thanks everyone! not only was it fun to bake, but now even fun to photograph :)

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  6. Those looks super yummy.

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  7. Great photos! Your cookies look delicious!
    Ann at Redacted Recipes

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  8. Hi Mimi! First of all, I love the look of your blog... so clean... It really shows off the photos. Very nice! The cookies look so good... yum!

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  9. what a fun event! And thanks for the review on the cookies. I have the same book but have yet make these cookies. Yours look great!

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  10. great pictures!!! and i'm very impressed that you did the caramel with a spoon -- it's perfect!

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  11. Green with envy over your new camera!!! These images are great and your cookies look just like Martha's! Well done!

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  12. These cookies look great. I really like those last two shots.

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  13. Wow your cookies are beautiful! I attempted to make cookies like these (but from The Good Cookie by Tish Boyle). They didn't look as perfect as yours though. I had trouble getting a nice thin drizzle over top, and filled my cookies too full so they oozed all over. Plus I burnt the caramel a bit haha. I'll have to try out this Martha recipe. I love coconut! And I'd love to join you guys in Martha Mondays but I already have a hard time keeping up with Daring Bakers and Tuesdays with Dorie! Great idea though. :)

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  14. Your cookies look better than Martha's!! Terrific. I love the drizzly caramel gooey pictures :)

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  15. Wow, those are really beautiful!

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  16. ooh, looking better than martha's! that's like heresy! haha. but thanks everyone, had a lot of fun with this and hope it grows. you're free to join us every other monday whenever you can!

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  17. For a first attempt at making caramel that looks awesome! I still can't get that stuff to do what I want it to!

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