Coconut Castles

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup shortening (margarine or butter)
• 2 cups brown sugar, lightly packed
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 4 eggs, lightly beaten
• 4 cups coconut
• 4 cups corn flakes cereal, crushed from 8 cups
• 1 cup pecans or 1 cup walnuts

Recipe

• 1 cream the shortening and brown sugar. add salt, vanilla and the beaten eggs.
• 2 crush the cornflakes. i always do this by measuring out twice as much uncrushed corn flakes and crushing them down to the correct amount. for this large recipe, i have two big four cup measures full of uncrushed corn flakes, and then crush them by hand down to two cups each.
• 3 add cornflakes, coconut and nuts to the egg and shortening mixture and mix well.
• 4 measure by tablespoons onto prepared baking sheets, either well-greased or, better yet, covered with baking parchment.
• 5 cook until golden brown.
• 6 let the cookies cool on the pan until they firm up.