397 coconut cookie recipes

Buttery coconut shortbread pressed into tart pans and baked golden. Made with unsweetened coconut, chilled butter, and vanilla for a crisp, sandy cookie with tropical flavor.

Dishpan cookies loaded with oats, corn flakes, coconut, and nuts. A classic farmhouse batch cookie so big you mix it in a dishpan. Crispy edges, chewy centers.

Light, airy coconut meringue cookies topped with candied cherry halves. Made with egg whites, sugar, and shredded coconut, these gluten-free bites are crisp on the outside and chewy in the center.

Crunchy drop cookies loaded with oats, crispy rice cereal, coconut, and nuts. These chewy-crispy TV cookies are the ultimate snack for movie night or after-school munching.

Lemonade wafers: crisp, egg-free drop cookies bright with fresh lemon zest and juice, optional coconut topping. Light, sunny cookie that tastes like summer in a single bite.

Coconut macaroons packed with Mounds candy pieces, cream cheese, and almond extract get drizzled with dark chocolate for bakery-worthy cookies.

Teem gok: deep-fried wonton cookies filled with dried fruit, coconut, almonds, and brown sugar. Crispy Chinese dessert wontons golden-fried in minutes.

Coconut haystack cookies with chopped dates and walnuts, bound by a meringue-style egg white and sugar base then baked golden. Chewy, crunchy, and naturally flour-free.

Vintage Cocomalt macaroons with shredded coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and chocolate-malt powder. A Depression-era cookie with chewy edges and a soft, malty center.

Seven-layer cookie bars with a chocolate graham crust, sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut, and nuts. Makes 36 bars with just 10 minutes of hands-on work.

Mom's cocoa macaroons: chewy coconut mounds with a soft cocoa note, bound with whipped egg whites instead of condensed milk. A simple seven-ingredient drop cookie that makes four dozen.

Light and fluffy Christmas snowball cookies. Lighter and lower fat than most Christmas cookies and faster to make (no need to refrigerate overnight).

Besitos de coco are traditional Latin American coconut macaroons made with fresh ground coconut, egg yolks, brown sugar, and butter. Golden, chewy, and rich with real coconut flavor. Little kisses worth fighting over.

Interesting way to make your own cookies. Tasty and easy.

Soft drop cookies loaded with apricot preserves, cream cheese, and pecans, topped with an apricot-spiked frosting for double fruit flavor.

ANZAC day is celebrated in Australia on April 25. On this day in 1915, the ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) landed at Gallipoli, and suffered the worst defeat in Australian military history. The fallen soldiers of all wars are now commemorated on ANZAC day. Another cookbook stated that these cookies were sold to raise money to help returned veterans.