Coconut Buns

From Hot Bread Kitchen cookbook, which I bought at Bittersweet Barn tag sale in Webb's Mills, Maine. This is another of those examples of, "If there's one recipe in the book that you make over and over, you've got your money's worth from it."

• 4 C flour
• 1/2 C sugar
• 2 t baking powder
• 1/2 t ground cinnamon
• 1/4 t salt
• 1/4 lb butter (8 T) softened
• 3 eggs
• 1 t vanilla extract
• 1 C shredded coconut
• 1/4 C raisins
• scant 1/2 C coconut milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper

Whisk dry ingredients together or just mix with dough hook in stand mixer

Add butter and mix in

Add the rest of the ingredients and mix until it all comwes together in a thick, sticky dough.

Let the dough rest in the bowl for 5 minutes.

Form into a dozen or more balls and place on parchment paper on cookie sheet

Bake for about 30 minutes or until golden brown and your kitchen smells like toasted coconut.