Chocolate Chip Coconut Rum Cookies are a great update to classic Chocolate Chip Cookies. The rum and coconut adds in a fun tropical flavor.
Chocolate Chip Coconut Rum Cookies
For today's 25 days of Holiday Cookies and Treats, we are taking a tropical diversion to the Caribbean, I hope you don't mind :-)! We are sharing Chocolate Chip Coconut and Rum Cookies!
Ooh, that is a mouthful to say but so worth it!
This recipe comes from a postcard I found in St. Thomas during our Carnival Breeze Cruise this year. I have been waiting for any excuse I could find to make these cookies and the 25 days of Holiday Cookies and Treats was the perfect reason.
I mean how can you go wrong combining coconut, chocolate chips, and oh yes RUM together in one yummy, luscious, please can I have 3 more cookies.
Ingredients
- Butter
- Flour
- Sugar
- Brown sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla extract
- Almond extract
- Salt
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- Chocolate chips
- Shredded coconut
- Rum
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Chocolate Chip Coconut Rum Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter softened
- 2 ¼ cup All Purpose Flour
- ¾ cup White Sugar
- ¾ cup Brown Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 Teaspoon Almond Extract
- 1 Teaspoon Salt
- ½ Teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ Teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups chocolate chips
- ½ cup shredded coconut
- ½ cup gold rum
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Beat together butter, flour, sugars, egg, and extracts
- In a separate bowl, combine salt, baking powder, soda, chocolate chips, and coconut
- Fold mixture into the batter along with the rum
- Drop by the spoonful onto a cookie sheet
- Bake 10-15 minutes, until golden brown
Nutrition
Recipe originally shared on December 8, 2013. Updated September 2020.
Recipe adapted from a postcard I picked up in St. Thomas
K
Can I substitute vanilla and almond extract and use rum
Roxanne
I just made a batch using sweetened coconut, so I decreased white sugar by 1/4 cup. I used semi sweet and milk chocolate chips. I also used Malibu Rum and omitted the almond extract (allergies). I doubled up the vanilla extract, I used my homemade.
joshua payne
Best chocolate chip cookie in my life!!!!
Tammilee
Josh, I am so glad you enjoyed the cookies!
Kristin Wheeler (
YUM! These look SO delicious!!! Pinning!