Food & Family Friday - Toasted Coconut Ginger Blondies (plus a giveaway!)

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And the winner is...

#27 Ashlei! Congrats lady!

Tropical Traditions will be sending you your prize very soon!

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Food & Family Friday is this new thing I'm doing. Mostly, because I like food and my family a lot (and not necessarily in that order).

F & F posts will feature easy recipes and some fun ideas that will bring your family together in the kitchen. This first recipe is a doozy, so brace yourself.

Toasted Coconut Ginger Blondies

• 1 cup sifted flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup chopped crystallized ginger
• 1/3 cup butter, coconut oil*, or palm shortening
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1/2-1 cup flaked unsweetened coconut

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Lightly grease an 8x8 baking pan with extra fat of choice.

Sift the sifted flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda together into a small bowl. Stir in the crystallized ginger.

Melt fat of choice gently over low heat in a medium sized saucepan. Whisk in brown sugar, mixing well. Let cool slightly if warm.

Whisk egg and vanilla extract into the sugar mixture. Mix in flour mixture in stages until well combined.

Spread batter into prepared pan and sprinkle flaked coconut on top. Bake for 15-25 minutes.

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These are so yum.They certainly didn't last long around here. :-)

Jackson had fun with these too, because I let him sprinkle the coconut on top.

I had never cooked with Coconut Oil prior to preparing these. Apparently it has like a zillion other uses too, many of which Tropical Traditions discusses on their website.

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Disclosure: Tropical Traditions provided me with one free Quart size jar of their Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil* in exchange for the honest opinions I've shared in this post as well as one jar to give away to my readers. I was not paid for this post. The recipe and photo in this post came from the Tropical Traditions recipe blog. The recipe was crafted by Sarah Shilhavy and the photo was taken by Jeremiah Shilhavy. At the close of this campaign, the free product I was sent has been used up. I recycled the glass jar. :-)