Coconut Tuiles Recipes

COCONUT TUILES

Steps:

• In a bowl cream together the butter and the sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy, add the egg white and the vanilla, and beat the mixture until it is just combined. Sift the flour over the mixture, fold it in, and fold in the coconut. Working in batches drop the batter by rounded teaspoons 4 inches apart into well-buttered baking sheets and pat it into 3-inch rounds with the back of a fork dipped in water. Bake the cookies in batches in the middle of a preheated 425°F. oven for 4 to 5 minutes, or until they are golden around the edges. Working quickly loosen the cookies carefully with a metal spatula, transfer them to a rolling pin, pressing gently to curl them around the pin, and let them cool completely on the pin. (If the cookies become too firm to remove from the baking sheet, return them to the oven for a few seconds to soften.) The tuiles may be made 1 day in advance and kept in an airtight container.

SAVORY COCONUT TUILES

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.
• Spread sweetened flaked coconut evenly in a shallow baking pan and toast in oven, stirring occasionally, until golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack.
• Reduce oven temperature to 250°F. Line a large baking sheet with nonstick liner.
• Stir together toasted coconut, unsweetened coconut, salt, and egg whites in a bowl until combined.
• Drop mounds (about 1 tablespoon per mound) of mixture about 3 inches apart onto baking sheet and pat each mound with moistened fingertips into a 2 1/2-inch round. Bake until golden, about 30 minutes. Cool on sheet on rack until crisp, about 2 minutes.
• Gently loosen tuiles, 1 at a time, with offset spatula and transfer to rack to cool completely, about 10 minutes more.