The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and these pandan coconut cookies are great for last minute bakes!
The original recipe is from Jeannie Tay, and I have added some pandan paste and desiccated coconut. While the pandan paste lends the cookies a nice mint green color, the taste was not very strong; but I really love the bits of coconut in there.
These cookies are truly melty ones by the way!
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These pandan coconut cookies use quite a fair bit of potato starch there, which gives them the melty texture. However, I also find that it gets a little dry as the cookies go down the throat. So it’s probably best to go with a cup of tea!
For a more buttery and less dry cookie, you can see the Copycat Jenny Bakery Butter Cookies I made last year.
You can extract natural fresh pandan extract on your own; I didn’t have the time, and since I have pandan paste in my fridge, I simply use the commercial pandan paste. Be sure to add a little of the dessicated coconut for added fragrance!
>> MORE CHINESE NEW YEAR COOKIE RECIPES:
Pandan Coconut Cookies 香酥香兰椰子曲奇
- Prep Time: 35 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 50 Cookies 1x
Description
Truly melt-in-mouth butter cookies with coconut fragrance!
Ingredients
- 200 g butter (softened)
- 180 g potato starch
- 120 g plain flour
- 60 g icing sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pandan paste
- 2 tbsp desiccated coconut
Instructions
- Whip the softened butter and icing sugar using a whisk or mixer, till light and creamy (like mayonnaise), about 1 min. Add in pandan paste and combine well.
- Sift in the flour, potato starch and salt. Add in desiccated coconut. Mix in a cutting motion, using a spatula, to a dough.
- Preheat oven to 140C, fan forced. Prepare baking tray with baking paper.
- Place half of the cookie dough into piping bag fitted with nozzle. Pipe cookies to your preferred shape. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 mins, until the sides turn slightly brownish.
Notes
I am using Wilton 1M piping tip for this cookie. Place piping bag about 0.5cm above baking tray, pipe out the cookie dough, while drawing circles on the tray. Move upwards as you pipe. Release pressure before pulling tip away.
You can watch this video on the piping.
Recipe adapted from Jeannie Tay. This recipe makes about 50-60 cookies, depending on size. Do also watch the oven and adjust baking time if your cookie is smaller.
- Category: Cookie, Snack
Hi.
I would like to know if its okay to skip the descicated coconut..
Hi! So sorry for my late reply. Yes it’s totally fine! Hope you’d get to make them for CNY 🙂
May i know the brand of pandan paste you use? I use Koepoe Koepoe and the colour is so much darker than yours.
Hi! Sorry for my late reply. I used Bake King’s pandan paste. How much darker is it? 🙂 Did the cookies brown?
Hi, may I know if I can substitute potato starch with corn flour? Thank you.
Hi there Veny! I have not tried using corn flour in this recipe, you can try that if you like 🙂 Just that potato starch will make the cookies have more of a melty texture. Corn flour might make them slightly more crispy 🙂
Hi! Can I check if I were to use real pandan juice instead, will it affect the recipe since it is liquid form instead of a paste?
Hi Rachel! Sorry I missed your comment earlier on. Wondering if you manage to try out the cookies? I would not recommend to use real pandan juice as it is not as intense as the pandan paste 🙂 Alternatively, if you can find pandan powder, you might want to give it a try as well – I have not tried using pandan powder though 🙂