Pandan Coconut Shortbread Cookies

These pale, square cookies are rolled in toasted coconut flakes before baking, giving each edge a light, golden crisp that adds both texture and flavor to every bite. The shortbread itself is scented with pandan, a fragrant leaf used widely across Southeast Asian cooking with a floral, slightly citrusy aroma that fills the kitchen as these bake. The flavor is warm and distinctive, the kind that's hard to place at first but impossible to forget. Buttery and not too sweet, with that firm shortbread snap giving way to a tender crumb, these have become a family favorite for good reason. Lovely with tea, easy to share, and the sort of thing people ask about after the first bite.

Approximately 24 cookies.