Coconut is always a favorite flavour for desserts. I don't like to use already made coconut. I always make my own, in fact I prepare it for the whole year, and I store in glass jars. These cookies are prepare in such a way they seem to be filled with the coconut because they are very tender.

Coconut represents fiber for a healthy easy digestion, especially for those people that have bowel problems. Even cooked coconut preserve its nutrients. It is rich in antioxidants and it is a mine of minerals. I always recommend the coconut milk for people who suffer from alzheimer, and you can make the oil at home and use it in salads. The cocunut oil is good though some scientists say it isn't, but other scientists say is very good. Well I don't know, I like it, and I use it

In venezuela women who live near the beaches or in the coast, prepare cocunut oil to cook meals, and they live long. So I think is better to consume it with moderation.

Ingredients you need:

• 1 fresh coconut
• 1 egg
• 250 grams of self raising flour
• 250 grams of sugar
• 125 grams of butter
• vanilla esence

Preparation:

Before making the coockies you have to take the skin off the coconut, wash it and grate it. I don't remove the brown skin because this gives color to the cokies, and it is rich in nutrients.

• peel the coconut and grate it
• in a bowl place the butter and the sugar
• add the vanilla esence
• mix well with a wooden spoon
• add the egg

• mix all well
• add the flour and the coconut
• mix
• don't mix as if were a cake

• greese a tin for oven
• place spoons of the mixture
• this recipe gives 12 cookies