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      Title: Coconut Buttons
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      Yield: 78 Servings
 
      1 c  Softened butter
    1/2 c  Sugar
      2 tb Milk
      1 ts Coconut extract
    3/4 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Salt
  2 2/3 c  Flour
  1 1/2 c  Flaked coconut; chopped
      4 oz Semisweet chocolate
      1 tb Shortening
 
  Beat butter, sugar, milk, coconut, baking powder
  and salt until fluffy. Stir in flour and coconut
  until dough is a bit crumbly. Squeeze together.
  Divide into 4 pieces, form into a 10X1" log. Wrap
  in plastic; chill until firm.
  
  Preheat oven to 325°.
  
  Cut each log into 1/2" slices. Place, 1" apart, on
  ungreased cookie sheets. Make 4 holes in each to
  make a button. Bake 20-25 minutes until lightly
  browned. Remove to rack to cool.
  
  Melt chocolate and shortening. Dip bottom of each
  cookie so it comes slightly up the side of each.
  Scrape from bottom leaving a very thin layer.
  Place, chocolate side down, on waxed paper until
  set.
 
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