The WAA Club Cookie
You can bet that WAA is the only astronomy club this side of the Oort Cloud (and probably on the other side too) that has its own official Club Cookie. For the past few years, Vice President for Membership (and honorary Chief Confections Officer) Eva Andersen, a nurse practitioner by trade but an astronomy and baking enthusiast by avocation, has brought a tub of these freshly-made cookies to our monthly club meetings, where they are enthusiastically gobbled up during the pre-lecture socializing.
Eva made a scientifically accurate version for the solar eclipse in 2017 that was the cover image of our October 2017 special edition of SkyWAAtch containing member reports on their eclipse experiences.
How to make the WAA Cookie
Ingredients:
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¾ cup white sugar
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¾ cup light brown sugar
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2 sticks unsalted softened butter
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2 eggs
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1 teaspoon baking soda
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1 teaspoon salt
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1 teaspoon coconut extract
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2½ cups flour
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1 cup shredded coconut
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2 cups total mixed baking chips divided between semisweet chocolate + butterscotch + white
Instructions: This is easiest done in a stand mixer or with electric mixer.
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Mix sugars and softened butter. Add eggs and mix well.
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Add baking soda, salt, coconut extract and flour and mix well.
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Add shredded coconut and mix. Add 3 kinds of chips and mix well.
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Make teaspoon-sized balls of dough and drop onto slightly greased cookie sheet.
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Bake at 340° until just almost starting to brown. Take out and cool for 3-5 minutes before moving to cooling rack.
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Eat and enjoy.