Caramel Coconut Shortbread Cookies

Ingredients
For Shortbread Cookies
- 1 cup Belfonte Dairy Butter (2 sticks, softened)
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- 2¾ cups flour (all purpose)
For Coconut Caramel Topping
- 1½ cups coconut flakes (toasted)
- ¼ cup butter (half a stick, melted)
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup heavy cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
For Chocolate Drizzle
- 1½ cups dark chocolate (or semi sweet or milk)
- 2 tsp coconut oil
Directions
For Shortbread Cookies
- In a large bowl, add your butter and sugar and beat until combined. Add your vanilla extract, salt & flour and mix until dough forms.
- Wrap your dough up and place in fridge or freezer to chill.
- Pre heat oven to 350° F and line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Once your dough has chilled for 30 minutes to an hour, roll it out on a floured surface to about a half inch thickness.
- Using two round cookie cutters, one smaller than the other, cut out circular rings and place on your lined baking trays.
- Bake for 350° for 8-10 minutes or until edges start to turn golden.
- Remove from oven and let cool completely.
For Coconut Caramel Topping
- Add your coconut on a pan and toast in the oven at 300° for about 5-8 minutes. Watch carefully to not burn because coconut can burn easily. Stir a few times in between.
- In a saucepan over medium heat add your butter and brown sugar and stir until melted. Continue to stir until mixture starts to bubble.
- Keep mixing your caramel mixture until it bubbles and starts to thicken and is smooth.
- Remove from heat and add your heavy cream, vanilla extract and pinch of salt. Stir together.
- Continue stirring until it’s all well combined and a caramel sauce has formed.
- Add your toasted coconut and stir until evenly coated.
For Chocolate
- In a glass bowl or measuring cup melt your chocolate in the microwave in 30 second increments (or a double boiler on the stove).
- Add your coconut oil.
Assemble
- To assemble these cookies add a spoonful of your coconut caramel to each cooled cookie and press around the edges.
- Dip the bottom of each cookie in the chocolate and place on a piece of parchment paper.
- Continue with the rest of your cookies.
- Drizzle each cookie with more chocolate.
- Cool and then you are ready to enjoy!!
Makes 2-3 dozen!!