Quick cookies
- Oven
- 220 °C220 °C (425 °F)
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 180 g butter, softened6½ oz butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 cup desiccated coconut
- 3 cups plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- ½ tsp salt
- 200 g chocolate, for the tops (Usually squares of Icelandic suðusúkkulaði (dark cooking chocolate); plain dark chocolate works.)7 oz chocolate, for the tops (Usually squares of Icelandic suðusúkkulaði (dark cooking chocolate); plain dark chocolate works.)
Method
- Heat the oven to 220°C and line baking sheets with baking paper.Heat the oven to 425 °F and line baking sheets with baking paper.
- Beat the butter and both sugars together well, then add the eggs, then all the dry ingredients.
- Roll into balls of a generous teaspoon each.
- Press a quarter of a chocolate square into the top of each ball.
- Place them in 5 rows of 6 on each sheet and bake on the bottom shelf.
- Bake at 220°C for about 10 minutes, no longer.Bake at 425 °F for about 10 minutes, no longer.
As she wrote it

"Fljótlegar" smákökur
1 b. sykur - 180 gr. smjör - 2 egg
1 b. púðurs. - 1 b. kókosmjöl
3 b. hveiti - 1 tsk. natron - 1/2 tsk. salt
200gr. súkkul. ofan á
Smjör + sykur hrært vel síðan
eggin svo allt þurrefni. Búnar
til kúlur (Rúml. 1 tsk.) 1/4 af
súkkul. bita þrýst ofaná.
5x6 á plötuna, neðsta Rim.
220°c í ca. 10 min (ekki lengur)