Malaysia New Year Coconut Cookies

Year 2022 lunar new year falls into 1st of February. It is another year of not being able to go back home thanks to the global pandemic situation. I am very frustrated with this on-going situation and neverending travel restrictions, I guess for most of you reading my blog now feel the same as me. As new year is getting closer, it is time to bake some new year goodies to cure my homesick.

If you don’t know already, in Malaysia we celebrate 4 different new year, the new year countdown for 1st of January like everywhere else in the world, the lunar new year, the muslim new year and the hindu new year. And this coconut cookies, you can find it easily during the lunar and muslim new year, whenever you pay a visit to your friends and family. I am that shameless guest who usually holding that jar of cookies and eating non stop.

Ingredients of New Year Coconut cookies

Unlike my Coconut oil chocolate chip cookiesrecipe which is more of an american cookies and has a subtle hint of coconut aroma, this malaysian coconut cookies recipe has a much stronger coconut scent, it is crispier and has more crust. If you prefer this kind of cookies, this recipe is definitely made for you.

• 170g butter
• 30g coconut oil
• 115g caster sugar or granulated sugar
• 115g dessicated coconut
• 230g all purpose flour
• 30g corn flour
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Be sure you also check out my others baking recipe using coconut oil and dessicated coconut.

• Matcha coco loaf cake
• Triple coconut pound cake
• Coconut oil chocolate chip cookies

My Baking Staples

Malaysia New Year Coconut Cookies

Recipe by CalleighCourse: Cooking RecipeCuisine: MalaysiaDifficulty: Easy

Servings

25 -30

pieces

Prep time

30

minutes

Baking time

10

minutes

Ingredients

• 170g butter

• 30g coconut oil

• 115g caster sugar or granulated sugar

• 115g dessicated coconut

• 230g all purpose flour

• 30g corn flour

• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 200C.
• Use an eletric mixer to beat your butter until soft and fluffy.
• Add the castor sugar and continue to beat it till soft and creamy
• Add in vanilla extract.
• Mix in the flour and corn flour, continue with the high speed mixing.
• Add in dessicated coconut and continue mixing. Mix until the dough becomes a big clump of dough and stop.
• Take a tiny bit of the dough and roll into balls (this makes 20-25) depending on your size
• Press each ball down with a fork to flatten the dough
• Bake for 10-15 in the oven at 200C minutes till nice and golden. Store in an airtight container and enjoy!

If you have an open kitchen like mine your whole kitchen and dining room will smell that wonderful coconut aroma. It smells like new year to me, I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do.

As you all know that I am also a big fan of coconut oil, you can learn more about this amazing oil in my blog post: All About Coconut

Do you know that you can also formulate your beauty products with coconut oil? Check out the below DIY recipes using coconut oil from my previous blogs.

• Foaming Coco-Cocoa Body Scrub
• Minty Coconut Salt Scrub Cubes
• Eucalyptus Mint Clay Mask
• Bergamot Tea Tree Hair Conditioning Bar
• Super Nourishing Coco-Cocoa Body Butter
• Quadruple Coconut Dose Body & Foot Scrub
• DIY Shea Butter & Coconut Hair Shampoo Bar
• DIY WHITENING TOOTH POWDER
• 4-INGREDIENT DIY BODY BUTTER

If you like my tutorial, please consider donating me a coffee! Cheers