LinsFood | by Azlin Bloor

In-Depth Recipes, Food Culture & Food Stories

Tropicana Lace Cookies

Published , updated

tropicana lace cookies

Intricate

Had some friends over last weekend and I took that opportunity to bake this. I tweaked my old brandy snap recipe here and there, added some condensed milk and desiccated coconut and voila – I present TROPICANA LACE COOKIES!

As a little kid, I used to make coconut fudge with my older siblings, my earliest memory of this is when I was 6, which means my sister was 9 and my brother was 8, with no parental supervision.  The ingredients were essentially freshly grated coconut and condensed milk. To this day, I fall to pieces at the merest hint of this combination! That’s the memory I went for in creating Tropicana Lace.

roasted coconut

Ingredients (makes about a dozen)

4 tbsp freshly grated coconut or desiccated coconut

1 tbsp golden syrup

20 g butter

1 tbsp condensed milk

2 tbsp caster sugar

3 tbsp flour

1 tsp rose essence

Spaced out

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180C/160 Fan. Line a baking sheet with baking paper if you have to.

2. Heat a small frying pan on low heat and dry roast the coconut until golden brown and the aroma hits you. Set aside.

3. Add the syrup, butter, milk and sugar in a small saucepan and heat, stirring to mix.

4. At the first sign of bubbles, add the flour, mix and take off the heat.

5. Add the coconut and rose essence and mix well.

6. Drop half a dozen spoonfuls of the mixture on the baking sheet, spacing them well apart as they will spread A LOT. If the mixture thickens, just heat it up again gently for the next round.

7. Bake for 6-8 minutes until completely flat and a uniform dark brown in colour.

8. Leave to cool completely, they will harden as they cool.

9. You can shape these cookies if you fancy, wrap them around a rolling pin about 30 seconds after they come out of the oven, before they get a chance to harden.

These are perfect as they are or served with ice cream. Even great crumbled over cakes and sundaes.

tropicana lace cookies

Tropicana Lace Cookies

Comments

  2. Rose :: Fine Craft Guild says

    These remind me of a Dutch version of these: with peanuts in them. So yummy.

    I am actually coming to your site re. the Follower linky blog hop. I AM FOLLOWING YOU *** WILL YOU FOLLOW ME BACK ? Thank you so much when you do.

    There is also a link party on our blog, where you can feature ‘your best creative work’. There are some great projects to see already, but we want to see your work!

    This url is both to FOLLOW and to PARTY: http://www.FineCraftGuild.com/party/

    Hope to seeing you around!! Have a happy, creative day!

  3. Choc Chip Uru says

    Goreous looking cookies my friend – so delicate but wonderful 😀
    Definitely something to try in the future!

    Cheers
    Choc Chip Uru

  5. Amrita says

    Oooo I’m loving the idea of this and also the coconut fudge you used to make as kids! These lace cookies would be awesome on icecream, I can totally picture it looking fancy on top of the dollops of ice cream 😀

  7. Only Fish Recipes says

    wow…these cookies look so crisp…n such a gorgeous color …loved it !

  8. Lyn @LovelyPantry says

    I love pretty things. These look so delicate and tasty too! I can definitely see this being served with ice cream! Yum!

  9. Lydia @ See Beautiful says

    Happy to be your newest Linky Follower! Those cookies look absolutely scrumptious! THanks so much for the link to the recipe. We’ll have to try them out!
    We think you’d love See Beautiful too!

    Happy seeing beautiful!
    http://seeabeautifulworld.blogspot.com/

  12. Hema says

    The cookies look fabulous, so delicate, thanks for your lovely comments and for following me, love to follow you back..

  14. Cucina49 says

    Those look spectacular! I wasn’t expecting the coconut, but I would absolutely love these.

  16. Anjuli (Connie) says

    Oh my goodness I have to send this to a friend of mine who LOVES anything coconut!!!!! Truly amazing!

  20. Alida says

    I have never made these. They look very nice. Thanks for sharing it. Have a good day.

  21. Tes says

    Wow that sounds amazing. It looks so thin and crispy! I really have to try this 🙂

  22. ramblingofasinglegirl says

    like the name Tropicana Lace Cookies they look exotic too.. I love brandy snaps and i can die for it too. just way to crazy about it… Do u have recipe?