Hawks Nest Cookies

For my own personal creative project, I took a cookie recipe that my grandma used to use all the time and I changed it up a little bit. You make the cookie dough with the normal ingredients (flour,sugar,salt,etc.) and then you roll the cookies in toasted coconut. Then you just bake them. My great grandma used to just throw any kind or color of m&ms in the middle of the cookie, but to make mine a little bit more different and kind of special to me and us here at KU (if cookies can be special) I chose to put red, blue, and yellow m&ms in the middle. This made them look more relevant to KU. What I contributed to the baking world probably wasn't very significant but I was able to take a recipe that is very commonly used in my family, and I made it something local and creative and special to me and my local family, who bleed crimson and blue. This can be easily done with any recipe. If you wanted to make something more creative or make it fun for a game or event at your school, add some food coloring or your school colors to the thing. Whatever it might be. 

Below are the pictures of the cookies I made. The first picture is the dough, the second is the toasted coconut. The third picture is what they looked like before I put them in the oven, and the fourth is what they looked like out of the oven. The last picture is what they looked like in my kitchen when I made my roommates try them. They loved them because they were fun and had KU colors.