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[Smag]

These are so good and really easy to make. If someone in your family has a nut allergy just don't add the almond. The cookie is just as good.

1 tsp. vanilla

1 14 oz. can seeetened condensed milk

3 cups shredded coconut

1 whole almond for each cookie

1/2 tsp. salt

Preheat oven 350 degrees

In the top of a double boiler combine milk, unsweetened chocolate and salt. Cook over rapid boiling water, stirring often for about 5 to 8 minutes, or until mixture thickens. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and coconut.

Form cookies by dropping teaspoons of the mixture on a well-greased baking sheet, 1 inch apart. Top each with a whole almond.

Bake in the middle shelf of oven for 10 to 12 minutes, watching carefully after 8 or 9 minutes, as the bottoms can be to brown.

Immediately remove cookies from pan with a metal spatula and cool on wax paper or parchment covered rack.

These cookies freeze well.

Note: I use 3/12 cups of bakers coconut.

[chickenbutt]

There isn't any chocolate in the list of ingredients (?)

[Smag]

Oops!

You need 2 oz. unsweetened chocolate.

[chickenbutt]

Thanks! Sounds great!

[gkelly]

Hope you don' mind me adding the chocolate to the recipe so it makes it easier to copy! This sounds very easy & quick, thanks for posting it!

OP by "Smag"

ALMOND JOY COOKIES

These are so good and really easy to make. If someone in your family has a nut allergy just don't add the almond. The cookie is just as good.

2 oz. unsweetened chocolate

1 tsp. vanilla

1 14 oz. can sweeetened condensed milk

3 cups shredded coconut

1 whole almond for each cookie

1/2 tsp. salt

Preheat oven 350 degrees

In the top of a double boiler combine milk, unsweetened chocolate and salt. Cook over rapid boiling water, stirring often for about 5 to 8 minutes, or until mixture thickens. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and coconut.

Form cookies by dropping teaspoons of the mixture on a well-greased baking sheet, 1 inch apart. Top each with a whole almond.

Bake in the middle shelf of oven for 10 to 12 minutes, watching carefully after 8 or 9 minutes, as the bottoms can be to brown.

Immediately remove cookies from pan with a metal spatula and cool on wax paper or parchment covered rack.

These cookies freeze well.

Note: I use 3/12 cups of bakers coconut.

[ChynnaBlue]

On 10/3/2014 Smag said:

Oops!

You need 2 oz. unsweetened chocolate.

Oh, good! I was really struggling to figure out how something without chocolate could be called an Almond Joy. These sound yummy - thanks for posting!