Home » Coconut Sunflower Seed Cookies Coconut Sunflower Seed Cookies Written on July 8, 2021As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Sweet coconut, chewy oats, and salty toasted sunflower seeds pair in these delightful and delicious Coconut Sunflower Seed Cookies! Sunflowers are such happy flowers and it’s hard not to feel cheered up just by looking at them.  I’ve always wanted to visit a huge field of sunflowers, but on the rare occasions I’ve been in an area that grows them en masse they weren’t in season.  So until then I’ll have to content myself with enjoying sunflowers in my vases, artwork, and by eating these yummy Coconut Sunflower Cookies! A Brief History of the Sunflower Sunflowers are native to North America and have a long history where they were one of the first crops to be grown.  Some sources say they were domesticated even before corn and that American Indians used sunflowers for food as long as 3,000 years ago.Though native to North America, it was actually Russia, under Peter the Great, who bred and cultivated the sunflower into the plant we know today. In the 18th century, sunflower seeds were transported from the New World to the Old World.

 Peter the Great became fascinated by them and Russia began growing them en masse – two million acres of them a year!  By 1830 the sunflower made its way back to the Americas. But it wasn’t until 1926, when the Missouri Sunflower Growers Association started producing oil from the

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