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Sometimes you feel like a nut and sometimes you don’t! These chocolate coconutty sandwich cookies will work either way, but I love it with the nuts. The Almond Joy candy bar was my inspiration when I created this cookie for the Betty Crocker cookie contest. I made it using the double chocolate chunk cookie mix, which I must say is hard to find in my part of Utah ever since Albertson’s closed. So if the cookie mix is hard for you to find you could easily substitute half of this recipe for the cookie portion and you could even mix some chocolate chips or chunks into the batter.
For today’s giveaway I have a cute zoo animal pancake pan thanks to Nordic Ware. This pan makes cute mini pancakes decorated with the image of a lion, elephant, monkey, and giraffe. This would definitely put a smile on you kiddos face to have animal pancakes waiting on their plate for breakfast. I even have great recipe to use for the pancakes if you need one. Along with that you will also some coupons for the folks at Challenge Butter for some free butter to top those cute pancakes with.
So to enter today’s giveaway I would love to hear what is your favorite recipe from Real Mom Kitchen. If you are new, then tell me what brought you here today. That’s it. You have until tonight at 10 pm (MST) to enter.
Here is what you need to make the
Chocolate Coconutty Sandwich Cookies
- BETTY CROCKER® DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIE MIX
- VEGETABLE OIL
- WATER
- EGG
- NEUFCHATEL CHEESE OR CREAM CHEESE
- BUTTER
- POWDERED SUGAR
- SHREDDED COCONUT
- CHOPPED ALMONDS
Chocolate Coconutty Sandwich Cookies
Ingredients
Cookie:
- 1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® double chocolate chunk cookie mix
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 egg
Filling:
- 4 oz of Neufchatel cheese or cream cheese
- 2 Tbsp. butter, softened
- 1 ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup shredded coconut
Additional ingredient:
- ½ cup chopped almonds
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, stir cookie mix, oil, water, and egg until soft dough forms.
- On ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 11-15 minutes (shiny metal cookie sheets) or 10-14 (dark or nonstick cookie sheets) just until set (centers will be soft). Allow to cool 1 minute on cookie sheet.
- Remove cookies from cookie sheet and allow to cool completely.
- To make filling, in a medium bowl beat Neufchatel cheese and butter until well blended. Slowly beat in powdered sugar. Fold in shredded coconut.
- Take half of the cooled cookies so the bottom side is facing up. Spoon approximately 1/8 cup of the filling onto the cookies.
- Take the remaining cookies and sandwich them with the cookies with filling on them, bottom side facing the filling.
- Put chopped almonds in a bowl. Take each sandwich one by one to the bowl, using a spoon scoop and press nuts in the sides of the sandwich filling. Continue until all cookies are complete. Make 12 cookie sandwiches.
148 comments
hmm..it will be hard to pick just one. I love your site! We just love your eclair recipe and your cafe rio pulled pork..opps–was that 2!
These cookies are brilliant! I love the Market Street Au Gratin Potatoes! mmmmm
Costa Vida Chicken 🙂
Pineapple and Green Chile Pork Tacos. Thanks for all the great recipes!
Baked Cheesy Chicken Penne- freezes great so you can make one and save one for a busy day! Your recipes are all great- and family friendly.
And they all look great.
I LOVE every recipe that I get from your website, thank you! My favorite recipe right now would have to be the strawberry kiwi spinach salad along with the strawberry dressing recipe, amazing!! I took it to a lunch with my sister in laws this week and got lots of compliments!
I am newbie to your site. Saw the article on KSL and decided to check it out. I am always looking for new recipes to add in the mix.
I LOVE ALL of your recipes and have tried many of them. You are a GREAT cook! Thanks for sharing.
It’s a toss up between your cafe rio pork or the mtn dew lemon pound cake all the recipes i have tried are delicious and easy enough too. I heard about your recipies through the So Valley Journal we advertise our business in it as well and read your story now I am hooked.
I heard about you on Studio 5 and am so excited to try some of your recipes. I love to cook too! Congratulations on your blog!
My family loves the mint brownies that we made last week. I think we have loved everything I’ve tried on your blog!
First visit today. I’m on a hunt to find some yummy cookie recipes for my cookbook. Everything looks so delicious!! I can’t wait to read more.
Your creamy chicken noodle soup by far!!!!!!!
I heard about this site on KSL and have just gotten around to taking a look. Can’t wait to have more time to search through it all. Thanks!
Those cookies look delicious! One of my favorite recipes from your site is the one for mint brownies, that you posted last month. YUM!
Today is my first time looking at your blog. I came over after my husband said he heard about you on KSL 5. Maybe he is tired of what I am cooking? Great blog. Love the ideas!
IM SORRY BUT EVERY TIME I THINK I KNOW MY FAVORITE RECIPE SOMETHING ELSE SOUNDS SO GOOD I CANT DECIDE. I LOVE THE FACT THAT ALOT OF YOUR RECIPES USE CONVENINCE FOODS FOR QUICK AND EASY AND I LOVE TO FIX THE FROM SCRATCH RECIPES FOR MY GRANDKIDS WHO THINK PANCAKES COME ONLY FROM A BOX MIX AND THEY ARE AMAZED THAT I MAKE THE BEST ONES AND DONT EVEN USE A MIX! THANKS TO YOUR EASY INGRED THAT I USUALLY HAVE AND DONT HAVE TO BUY ONES THAT I MIGHT NOT EVER USE AGAIN. HUGS SALLY
What a cute website. I just joined, my sister told me about this website so I figured I’d check it out. those chocolaty coconut sandwhich cookies look GReat. I’m going to have to keep looking around. Thanks.
I have tried SO many good recipes here. A few favorites are the red-and-white pasta bake, beefy bean burritos, and German apple pancakes. Yum! And the best part is they are recipes my family will eat!
My favorite is the sandwich you made on french bread with chicken and cream cheese, etc. I forgot what it is called. It’s such an easy thing to make and isn’t too heavy. It gets me in the mood for summer…
I have recently discovered your website, so I haven’t had a chance to try any of your recipes. 🙁 I do have Costa Vida chicken at the top of my list. I come back because of the variety of recipes and your family stories are similiar to mine. I am so tickled to be here. Thanks!
Hi there. I am a first timer to your site! I came over because of a recipe credited to you on another blog! The Olive Tree [https://www.theolive-tree.blogspot.com]
Thanks for such a great giveaway opportunity!
Glazed Poppyseed Bundt Cake! It looks amazing. Can’t wait to try it out.
Hello my name is Kate and I am a miniature-aholic – so, being new to your site, after reading the article about your blog at KSL.com, I began looking through your recipes – which so far all look delicious :o) – when what did I come upon but your “Mini Ham Quiches” and they are not only cute but delicious too! Thank you so much for your wonderful talent of blogging.
My family loves the flatbread tacos and I had so much fun making the heart shaped cinnamon rolls. Look forward to checking in each day!
I love a lot of your recipes, but my family’s favorite is skillet enchiladas. I love how fast the recipe is and how much it taste like enchiladas my grandma use to make.
I tried one of your soup recipes and really liked it.
Red velvet cake truffles! I’m even making them this weekend for a babygirl shower!
I love your apple turnovers made with croissant rolls! But I absolutely love when you post recipes for the fruits and vegetables that are in season!
I love the refried beans in the crock pot! So easy and yummy plus its a good way to use the beans in the food storage! I tell all my friends and co workers about you! Your awesome!
Oh! That’s so hard! I love the oats and everything bars, the Santa Fe Lime Rice, and the Chocolate Mint Pie!
I liked the stacked tacos, it was something our whole family ate!
i love love the molly’s roll recipe! it is my go to recipe i use it weekly!
I am fairly new but made the “Make You Cry” Mint Brownie Pie and my family and I loved it!
My kiddos would get a kick out of pancakes made in that pan 🙂 I’ve made your peanut butter truffle brownies, and we just loved them!
I saw the story as well on KSL and checked out your blog, I can’t wait to try some stuff. Love it:)
– Costa Vida Chicken
– Made it last night
– Ate it for lunch today
– Fantastic! Thank you!
– KSL.com — great story.
I wish you continued success!
I am fairly new to your blog and haven’t tried all the recipes I WANT to try, but so far my favorite is red velvet cupcakes. My kids loved them too!
I saw the article yesterday on KSL and thought I’d check it out. My boyfriend and I decided at the first of the year to start cooking at least 4 times/week so I’m always looking for new recipes. I’ve already found lots of new ones I want to try!
My sister referred me. It all looks so yummy!
Those look yummy! My favorite recipe is Sugar Cookie Bars, but maybe I’m saying that cause I ate some just an hour ago. 🙂 Really. (They stay in the freezer so nicely.)
I love love love your Pineapple Green Chile Pork Tacos (or burritos?) I make those ALL the time for other people and they just absolutely LOVE them! Of course I love all your other recipes also!
I think that My favorite recipe has to be the German Apple pancakes
One of my favorite recipes that I have made from your website is Applesauce BBQ Sauce Shredded Pork. It was so good and easy to make. I check your site just about everyday. Thanks for so many good recipes.
I just discovered your site yesterday when my mom sent me a link to your article from KSL. I’m so glad she did! And of course being that today’s feature is a chocolate cookie with coconut it is totally my favorite one so far!
Your baked manicotti made with large wonton wrappers…YUM!
I saw the story of your blog on KSL.com. Yesterday was my first time. I can’t wait to look through it more.
Yummy yummy herb braid is what got me started here. But those cookies look fairly fantastic.
Tons of yummy stuff here – so hard to choose. I love all of your breakfast recipes. The one I use the most are the tender sour cream waffles. Not sure if that makes them my favorite but it is what pops into my head first at this moment in time.
Oh, I also love the 30 minute rolls – I grab them when I all of a sudden want rolls and don’t have time to make any. Great recipe. The cinnamon rolls made from that recipe are great too. YUM!
I read about your blog yesterday on KSL.com, so I headed over to check it out. The lemon cupcakes looked so yummy that we tried them out yesterday. They were FANTASTIC! Thanks for sharing such great recipes.
I have made the lion house rolls that were really good and I have tried and liked one of your pizza dough recipes. I can’t remember the name but another we really liked was a fruit salad that was tropical.
I like the cheesy garlic bread, honey-lime chicken enchiladas, chicken cordon bleu pasta and several others. Thanks!
Definately the dinner rolls. I’ve made the 30 minute ones several times since I found it!
I saw your story on KSL.com yesterday! I love food blogs so I have added yours to my list of reads. 🙂
I love so many of your recipes but the ones I make the most are the “Divine Breadsticks and “Over the Top Brownies”. Thanks!
your texas caviar recipe is what brought me but you have so many good recipes I’m a follower in google now 🙂
I have made a lot of your recipes. I have two favorites. My favorite dinner recipe is the beef taco bake. I have made it with beef and corn tortillas and with chicken and flour tortillas. I like this recipe because it is simple, tasty, and is a great base recipe for making different dishes. Plus, my family loves Mexican-inspired food. My favorite dessert is the thick and chewy chocolate chip bars….YUM!!!! I ate almost the whole pan. 🙂
Your easy sugar cookies! Those are a weekly staple at our house and I have shared your fabulous recipe with many of my friends! TY!!
Hmm I have a lot of recipies that I use from your site! I think my favorite was the Thin mint cupcakes and your cream cheese icing oh and also the broccoli cheese soup!
Costa Vida chicken… yummmmmm! Thanks for sharing so many awesome recipies!
My definite favorite is the chicken enchilada soup! So good and so easy! Love your blog!
i am new to this “blog” and i am already obsessed!!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!!!!
I tried your thick and chewy chocolate chip bars a few weeks ago, they were delicious. That pancake pan is so cute, my 3 year old and one year old would love it.
I was brought here by the KSL article featuring your website. I am always looking for food websites that tell me how I can use regular ingredients to make yummy food and I think I’ve found it! 🙂
I saw you on my friends blog where she talked about overnight blueberry something-or-another, haven’t looked far enough yet because I saw this first, the cookie sandwiches look really good!
My kids would love these. I was brought here by the article on KSL.COM regarding your website.
I LOVE that pan!! How fun is that?! And really…there are too many good recipes on here from me to list just one. I LOVE this site, I’ve made so many things on here and refer many people here as well. Thanks for sharing your talent with us!!
We love Taco Soup and your brownies for a crowd recipe was delicious! I halved it for my not so big crowd but they only lasted a couple days. They were great! Loved thre glaze.
I can’t wait to try the Philly Cheese Rolls. They look so good.
I will be making your Stacked Taco’s and Brownies for a Crowd next month.. Can’t wait! I love most of your recipes!
I can’t wait to try your Stacked Taco’s.. I will be making those next month.. along with the Brownies for a crowd!!
I just discovered your site yesterday after finding the article on KSL but your Lime in the Coconut Frosted Cookies sound AMAZING, can’t wait to make ’em!!! I think I may be able to get my child to eat her pancakes with these adorable images- so cute!! Thanks for providing new dinner ideas!
I love the parmesan garlic knots (I made them last night) and your Minestrone soup. I have made that several times!
There are so many to pick from and to be honest I really have not had a chance to make many of them, but I want to make your overnight Blueberry French Toast. It sounds so yummy(and I love French toast) Also my daughter would love that pancake pan. She loves pancakes and loves to help me make things.
I love the rolls, all of them really.
I’m new — I need to find healthy, inexpensive meals for my family.
I saw this blog on KSL.com and came to check it out…this is great! My daughter, who is 13, loves to cook, but she’s just getting into it. These recipes are right up her alley! Thanks – it’ll be fun to explore and experiment 😀
I love the costa vida chicken. and my son would love that “pannycake” pan.
I like the crockpot refried beans. Once you make them yourself, you can’t go back to the cans!
Sugar Cookie Bars…..so good
Lemon cream puffs!
I just tried to Costa Vida Chicken and it was delicious. Thanks for the great ideas. Also loved the over the top brownies.
Hi! I come here a lot- but today’s recipe caught my eye because anything with Coconut has to be divine!
I have a couple of favorite recipes. I really liked the chicken cordon bleu pasta. I can’t remember if that was the exact name, but I think that was what it was called. My husband also loved the rootbeer cookie recipe!! he loves root beer so they were perfect for him! And I can’t wait to try yesterday’s and today’s cookie recipes!! The lime in the coconut frosted cookies and these chocolate coconutty sandwich cookies! We must both be really liking coconut right now 😉
I am new! I read about you and your blog on ksl.com. I have you book marked now. I am excited to look around. Everything looks so yummy!
Oh that is SO hard to choose. I love almost everything here.
But I have to tell you, that when we had all 6 of our kids, plus one son in law home this past Easter, your poppy seed glazed bunt cake and your weekend breakfast bake was a HUGE enjoyment. So easy and so filling and everyone raved about Easter Breakfast. ; D
Thanks!
I heard about you yesterday on KSL radio. Since then, have told about a dozen people about your site.
Most definitely the chicken enchilada soup~~~MMMM!!!
I LOVED the recipe for Baked Manicotti using the eggroll wrappers. Oh…..my…..GOODNESS! I also love Molly’s Rolls, and have made them MANY times!
I’m new. Heard about you from local news website. When they mentioned you use easy to find ingredients or ones that you already have, clicking over to your blog was a no-brainer. Can’t wait to try your recipes!
I’m relatively new, but I started coming a couple of months ago when you posted your cranberry pudding cake recipe. I have tons of frozen cranberries and a friend suggested your site. 🙂
Buttermilk pancakes! Mmmm…they will go great with this for my kids. 🙂
I like your Crockpot Refried Beans recipe. It’s a great addition to taco night.
My fav is your chicken tortilla soup made in the crock pot. So Delish!
i made your baked swiss chicken the other night and my husband and kids loved it!!! Thanks!!!
Bagel dogs for starters…
Overnight pull-aparts! My family loves these and I love how easy they are!
My favorite recipe so far is the lasagna that uses ranch dressing and then the breakfast pancake that has bacon and maple syrup in it. So yummy and so easy! I made it conference morning for a group of people and everyone loved it!
To many to list, i make the cinnamon bon pancakes every week and every time I make breadsticks its the pizza hut recipe you have, keep the great recipes coming I love your blog!
I just read about you on KSL.com yesterday! I am so jazzed to try out your stuff! I’ve already got a huge list going…
My husband and four children would love this. This is my second time here. I saw you on KSL.com yesterday and loved looking through the blog…so I am back today. Can’t wait to enjoy some of your stuff.
I saw a write up about you in the paper…thought I would check you out. That pancake pan is adorable! My kids would love it!
I am fairly new to your blog but I have tried the cheerios treats twice and do love them as well as my kids. Love your blog!
My mother-in-law sent me a link to your page this morning. At first I was really interested in your site because of the name, Real Mom Kitchen! LOL 🙂 I love it! Then as I started looking at the recipes I noticed that more than half of them I know my husband and boys will eat. You have no idea how exciting that it for me! Thanks so much for taking the time to share. I will be back often!
I am newer to your website and have not had a chance to try to many of the recipes. We did do the Microwave Dutchoven Potatoes one night. They were pretty good and loved having something new. I copy all of your recipes that I want to try and I am making a Real Mom Recipes cook book and hope to try them all!
I discovered your blog after reading about it in the S. Valley Journal. I have yet to make any recipes, but am eager to try many. I especially have my eye on your Creme Brulee French Toast recipe, can’t wait to try it!
We are all about easy at my house, One of my favorite recipes is the Easy Pasta Bake and Laura’s version of Cafe Rio Sweet Pork in the crock pot!! Yumm!!
I just found your blog yesterday but have already made 3 recipes from it. They were all excellent! I love the brownies and salsibury steak. Tonight we are having the Cost Vida chicken. Your sight is so helpful and I absolutley love it. I have 6 kids and are about to have my 7th so I love how your recipes are big enough for my entire family. My family has a lot of similar likes and dislikes with food as yours so that also makes it nice. Thank you for this great website!
love the cheesey chicken lasagna and the flat bread tacos
Well I’m pretty new to your blog (not even a week) but the banana cream pie was yummy and tonight I’m finally trying the Costa chicken that you blogged about the other today. It looked so good! I love Almond Joy too and these cookies look so good. Unfortunately for me my Dh can’t eat coconut so I don’t usually make anything with it for our family.
I’m new to your site and just looked at the chicken recipies. They appear to have most of the ingredients I have on hand without to much substitutions. Can’t wait to browse more and then start trying!
I love the easy parmesan knots. But i cant wait to make those orange cupcakes you posted a couple days ago! They looked awesome!
Good morning and happy earth day! I made the brownies for a crowd (halved the recipe and put in a 9×13) and absolutely loved them. I brought them to montessori for my kids’ teachers today in honor of earth day. Totally love those brownies.
My family and I love the cinnamon bun pancakes. So yummy!
I would have to say I’ve liked all that I’ve tried on RMK. My favorite though is Eclair Torte.
I can’t even begin to tell you how many of your recipes I have printed out, but the one I use the most is the 30-minute rolls. So fast when I forget about a bread for dinner and the cinnamon roll version is great too!
Have made several of your pizza crusts. Want to make the Chicago style garlic crust and plan to make the White Texas Sheet Cake for this weekend. I enjoy your blog and really like that I can see it on facebook. Makes it easier for me. Thanks!
The recipe we have used the most is Flat Bread Tacos. So easy and love using up those biscuits we got on sale! Thanks for all your recipes!!!
I love the site and finding new recipes. We just had the Costa Vida Chicken tacos last night for dinner. Yummy! I made my own mango salsa due to your recommendation of having mango salsa with them. I had no time to go to Costco so I made my own!
The costa vida chicken. I made a big batch and it was enough for three meals…Yummy!!
Heard about your site on KSL yesterday, had to check it out. Can’t wait to try out the recipes – what I’ve seen so far looks great!
I have just found your blog recently and have made the Samoa Brownies – a HUGE hit at a party last night, and the deep dish pizza that you posted a while ago – my family LOVED it! I would love to win the pancake pan. My son’s favorite food is pancakes and he even requested them for his birthday dinner!
I love your recipe for speedy brownies. It’s my go to recipe when I’m craving something sweet.
We LOVE your Flat Bread Taco recipe!!! I fix it about once a week because it is so good:) Thanks for all of your wonderful recipes!
WOW – this looks awesome! Fancy, too!
I LOVE it when my Google Reader tells me there is a new post from you! Make my day.
My kids favorite of yours is the Sunny Peanut Butter Chews!
Thanks for the yummy recipes! They are easy and yummy; my two favorite things! Keep ’em coming!
And my kids would love the pancake pan thing!
I love the Citrus Chicken recipe. I also love the pumpkin muffins. Anything I have tried on here is wonderful. Thank you for your hard work, and thank you for inviting us all to the party!
I am new to your blog but I love it! The thing that drew me to your website is your recipes look so quick and easy. Very nice for a stay at home mom. 🙂 I would love to win the pancake pan. My daughter would love some cute animal pancakes.
Newcomer here! love your site already, I first noticed this yummy sandwich cookie on taste spotting! Ill be back for sure 😉
Oh well,of ALL the recipes of yours I have tried if I have to pick ,mmmmmmmmmm, OK,the Pineapple Cupcakes with Pineapple Cream Cheese Frosting ,they were SUPER GOOD !!!Really this isn’t fair to try to pick one.
I love your website! I love the bread and roll recipes. Thanks for all the gread ideas!
They look marvelous and I will have to try it! Thanks for the recipe!
Ihave tons of recipes I use from here. I love the cheesy chicken lasagna recipe.
We love the sugar cookie bars. My husband asks for them all the time–which is saying something because he doesn’t like sweets!
Hmmm…my favorite one. It is so hard to choose because you have so many great recipes. I love that you post every day. The first one that came to my mind was Molly’s rolls. I love the quick prep time. The Southwest chicken nachos are pretty awesome too. Keep up the good work!
I just found your site yesterday through your highlight on ksl.com. I am loving it thus far & we are FOR SURE having your overnight blueberry french toast Sat morning! I can’t wait!
Your Marshmallow brownies are divine! And, just yesterday made that new Costa Vida chicken recipe. It was delicious and a great way to stretch your budget….the chicken shredded out to make quite a few taco servings, plus much to spare. 😉 Thanks for all your hard work!
I love the sugar cookies with frosting… My friends and I often get together and cut out cookies and frost them!!! I love your site!!! Thank you for all the time you put into it!!
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I am new to the site. I love reading blogs and I saw your story on ksl! I am a stay at home mom and love to cook, but rarrely have time to run to the grocery store for that random, obscure ingredient in most recipes….this site is perfect and amazing! I can’t wait to try out some of your recipes!
I love all your bread and roll recipes since I love to bake and my boys LOVE bread! Especially your Lion house rolls. YUM!
Saw your link on a friend’s blog and have been her everyday since. I love all your crockpot chicken recipes. I love the Southwestern Chicken Nachos the best. I also love the Creme Brule French Toast…what a hit on Easter!
apple pomegranate spice bread = YUM!
I am new to the site, but I clicked on a link from PYP – and I love it! I find myself wanting to make everything, I think the tempting pictures help with that little factor! PS – sometimes when I click on “You might also like” category it doesn’t work, it says page not found. I’m not sure how to get around that and find more delicious recipes!
I am fairly new, but I have made a few recipes from here already, and all were awesome! I really loved the Rigatoni, and the baked ziti.
My favorite recipe is the Marshmallow Brownies. LUV THEM. that pan is to cute.
I make the Black Bean and Corn Salsa for every get together, it’s so simple, but fantastic! Thank you for the recipe and the chance to win.
I love the divine breadsticks recipe. So yummy!I was initially lured here by your Chinese food section though.
I initially was linked to your website for your 1 hour wheat bread recipe- I love it and make it every week!