Description
These Divine Coconut Ube Besito Cookies are a delightful fusion of ube and coconut flavors, featuring a creamy ube pastry cream sandwiched between two chewy coconut cookies. Topped with a white chocolate drizzle, these cookies are a heavenly treat for any occasion.
Ingredients
Scale
For the Ube Pastry Cream:
- 2 cups Whole Milk
- 1 cup Ube Condensed Milk
- 4 large Egg Yolks
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1/4 cup Cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter
For the Coconut Cookies:
- 1/2 cup White Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Coconut Extract
- 1 large Egg
- 2 cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/4 cup Cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup Shredded Coconut
- 1/2 cup White Chocolate Chips
- 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Ube Extract
- 1 large Egg
- 2 cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/4 cup Cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 cup White Chocolate Chips
- 2 large Egg Whites
- 1 pinch Salt
Instructions
- Pastry Cream – Combine milk and ube condensed milk, whisk egg yolks, sugar, ube extract, and cornstarch, temper eggs, cook mixture until thickened, chill.
- Coconut Meringue – Mix coconut and ube condensed milk, beat egg whites, fold into coconut mixture, bake meringue.
- Ube Cookie Dough – Cream butter and sugar, add egg and extract, mix in dry ingredients, fold in coconut and chocolate, shape into balls.
- Assembly – Flatten dough balls, fill with pastry cream, freeze, bake, cool, dip in white chocolate, drizzle with more chocolate if desired.
Notes
- For best results, chill the pastry cream thoroughly before assembling the cookies.
- Ensure the cookies are completely cooled before dipping them in white chocolate.
- Feel free to customize the cookies by adding nuts or dried fruit to the dough.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 280
- Sugar: 18g
- Sodium: 180mg
- Fat: 14g
- Saturated Fat: 9g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 35g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 60mg