Oatmeal Coconut Drops
By: Helen Pitlick
Published: Sunday, December 6, 2009 - 10:25pm

Ingredients




1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 allspice
1/4 cup buttermilk or milk
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups quick-cooking rolled oats
1 cup flaked coconut
Browned butter frosting (optional)
1/4 cup butter
2 cups sifted confectioner's sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons to 3  milk

Preparation

1 Cream butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Add salt, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, buttermilk and eggs; beat well. Stir in flour, oats, nuts and coconut. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. Frost if desired 2 To make the frosting, Brown butter in saucepan. Stir in confectioner's sugar and vanilla. Blend in milk until of spreading consistency.

About


From the Occident/King Midas Collector's Bake Book.