Lemon Coconut Twists Recipes

LEMON COCONUT TWISTS

Steps:

• In electric mixer bowl, combine water, yeast, and sugar. Let stand 5 minutes.
• Stir in sour cream, dry milk, eggs, butter, sugar, salt, white whole wheat flour and bread flour.
• With dough hook, knead on low speed 5 minutes.
• Put dough into a greased bowl, cover, let rise till double.
• Punch down dough.
• Roll dough into rectangle, 18 x 10 inches; cut into eighteen 1-inch strips.
• In a 9-inch glass pie plate melt butter.
• In a second pie plate, combine pudding and pie mix and coconut.
• Dip each strip in melted butter, then into coconut mixture.
• Twist and hold one end of strip down on greased baking sheet for the
• center of the roll and curl the strip around center, tucking end under.
• Place remaining butter or coconut mixture on top of twists.
• Cover twists, let rise in warm place until double.
• Bake in preheated 350°F oven 10 to 15 minutes, or until golden brown.
• Remove rolls to a wire rack.
• For frosting, combine confectioners' sugar, lemon extract, almond extract and cream until frosting is smooth and of spreadable consistency.
• Frost warm rolls.
• Makes 18 rolls.

LEMON BARS WITH COCONUT

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 9x13-inch pan with parchment paper.
• Combine flour, butter, and powdered sugar for crust in a food processor; pulse until fine crumbles form. Press into the prepared pan.
• Bake crust in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine sugar, coconut, flour, eggs, lemon zest, lemon juice, and baking powder in a bowl.
• Remove crust from the oven and pour filling over top. Return to the oven and bake until just golden around the edges, 20 to 25 minutes more.
• Remove from the oven and let cool, about 30 minutes. Place in the refrigerator until completely chilled, about 2 hours. Dust with powdered sugar and cut into 24 bars.

LEMONY COCONUT BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes; gradually beat in flour, mixing well., Press onto bottom of a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake until edges are golden brown, 8-10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack., For filling, in a large bowl, beat eggs, brown sugar, lemon zest and extracts until blended. In a small bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt; stir into egg mixture. Stir in coconut and pecans. Spread over crust., Bake until golden brown, 17-20 minutes. Cool 10 minutes on a wire rack. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix glaze ingredients until smooth; drizzle over warm filling. Cool completely. Cut into bars.