Lemon Coconut Cookies are soft, buttery biscuits with a fresh lemon flavour and a lovely hint of coconut, perfect for easy home baking. This simple cookies and biscuits recipe makes a batch of light, tender treats that come together with minimal fuss.

Made with butter, lemon and coconut, these cookies are perfect for afternoon tea, lunchboxes or a quick baking fix when you want something bright and comforting.

Originally published November 4, 2019. Updated 20 March 2026

I love using lemon in baking!

Here I am again sharing a delicious lemon recipe since I know everyone loves them so much and again I have a plentiful supply. 

I have several variations of lemon biscuit recipes I will be sharing, this one is lovely and simple for those that like the combination of lemon and coconut together. Many of you love my Lemon & Coconut Slice (which is basically a lemon coconut brownie) so this should be another treat. 

The flavours of this are subtle, it is a great balance of lemon and coconut where neither outweighs the other. For those of you that prefer a more powerful hit of lemon I will include suggestions in my recipe below. 

The ingredients are as follows

Using pantry basics, I prefer to make this using my food mixer, it creams the butter and sugar so well, but for those that do not have one a strong arm and a whisk will get you there! 

• Butter
• Sugar
• Lemon Zest
• Egg
• Vanilla
• Lemon Juice
• Baking Powder
• Salt
• Flour
• Coconut
• Yellow Food Colouring (Optional)

How I make these cookies

I like to use the zest of a whole lemon, at least a couple of table spoons, if you prefer it more lemony add extra, most of the flavour comes from the zest. 

I always add my lemon zest to either sugar or butter, to infuse the flavours, so that is the first step, creaming together the butter, sugar and lemon zest until pale and creamy

Then I add the wet ingredients with the salt and beat well to combine. Finally I slowly stir through the flour, baking powder and coconut.

Lemon baking is not always the signature yellow we would like to see so my trick is that I often add a little dash of yellow food colouring. It is not needed for anything other than looks so is totally optional. I use gel colouring, of which you only need a tiny speck blended through for a hint more lemon colouring. 

I have used my cookie scoop to create even sized amounts of dough on the tray, this is a soft dough so if you prefer you can use two spoons to scoop and scrape small dollops of dough. 

Sometimes I like to roll these into white sugar to create a crisper pretty finish, you can even roll in lemon zest and sugar if you prefer more of a lemon hit, but this is up to you. 

Then we bake! These are a lovely soft cookie, you can cook it a little longer if you wish it to be crunchier, but I find cooking until the edges just turn the slightest hint of golden is perfect. 

My Recipe for Lemon Coconut Biscuits

I hope you love this one! So lovely and light.

It is as easy as that! Be sure to let me know what you think in the comments below when you make them.

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Happy Baking! 

Anna xo