You will be wondering why I chose to do a cookie from Samoa while the alphabet I needed to do is W. When the A-Z theme was announced, there was a problem with some alphabets as there are no countries starting with them. Those two alphabets are W and X. So Srivalli gave us a choice. We can do it from a country whose name in the regional language may start from that alphabet or it may be the former name which starts from that alphabet. I chose to do a cookie from Wallis island. But when I was searching for authentic recipes from those islands, I couldn’t get any. And then I read that the cuisine is mostly Polynesian. Then I learnt that the cuisine is also so much influenced by the neighbouring countries and one among them is Samoa. Then I landed upon this recipe and when I was reading about Samoa, I was into a great surprise. Samoa is formerly known as Western Samoa. So instead of doing this for Wallis island, I decided to do it for Samoa itself. As former name of this country starts with W this will be perfect for my today’s alphabet. How good is my luck?
Samoa, officially The Independant State of Samoa was formerly known as Western Samoa. This is an oceanian country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the south Pacific. Coconut is mostly used in Samoan cooking. This cookies are made with freh thick coconut milk and has a nice flavour. These are flaky, buttery and crispy. These are very famous in Samoa and are sold in stacks neatly packed in plastic bags. We just loved how these cookies turned out. It tasted absolutely delicious with a cup of hot coffee.
Makes 40 cookies
Ingredients:
Butter-1/5 cup
Sugar-2/5 cup, powdered
Thick Coconut Milk-1/2 cup
Vanilla Essence-1/2 tsp
Flour/ Maida- 2 cups
Baking Powder-1 tsp
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 175°C.
In a bowl cream together sugar and butter.
Add vanilla and beat.
Now add the coconut milk and mix well.
Add flour and baking powder and mix to form a soft dough.
Roll the dough on the counter to a thick disc.
Cut into squares.
Gather the remaining dough, roll it again and cut into squares.
Arrange the squares on a greased tray and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden.
Cool on wire rack and serve.
Store remaining cookies in airtight jar.
Masi Samoa / Samoan Coconut Cookies
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Butter-1/5 cup
- Sugar-2/5 cup powdered
- Thick Coconut Milk-1/2 cup
- Vanilla Essence-1/2 tsp
- Flour/ Maida- 2 cups
- Baking Powder-1 tsp
Instructions
Procedure
- Preheat oven to 175°C.
- In a bowl cream together sugar and butter.
- Add vanilla and beat.
- Now add the coconut milk and mix well.
- Add flour and baking powder and mix to form a soft dough.
- Roll the dough on the counter to a thick disc.
- Cut into squares.
- Gather the remaining dough, roll it again and cut into squares.
- Arrange the squares on a greased tray and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden.
- Cool on wire rack and serve.
- Store remaining cookies in airtight jar.
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Those perfectly cut square cookies. Had I cut them, I would have gotten infinite number of shapes.. 🙂 Nice choice for W. I see coconut milk is a common ingredient in most of the recipes. Even Pavani did this country and she too had coconut milk in it. Nice cookies
I was wondering how you got that shape using coconut flakes. I see now it is flavored with coconut milk. They are cute shape and look delicious.
yummy cookies with coconut milk. But Gayathri how do we measure 1/5 and 2/5 ? Do you it in grams or ounces?
Mayuri, 1/5 th is little less than 1/4 th. So in an 1/4 th cup take 1 tbs less and you will get 1/5th of a cup.
Coconut milk in cookies, that truly very interesting, masi sounds prefect to munch anytime.
Perfect squares and I love this change.Gayathri tell me which butter do you use. We normally get the amul butter which is salted. Amul does have cooking salt free butter but 99% not available. So you suggest using from the dairy ..which normally has water..or any other? The butter confuses me like mad.
Vaishali, I normally buy butter from Nilgiris. They have unsalted cooking butter. And also there is a butter we get in Tamilnadu known as oothukuli butter. It is white in colour. I also use that some times. You need to check with your local dairy..
Those coconut cookies look addictive.
And for Mayuri, 1/5th cup is 3 tbsp. + 1 tsp and 2/5th cup is 6 tbsp. + 2 tsp. :))
OMG! these look so addictive.
a lovely one again…and so doable
Love the addition of coconut milk in these cookies. These cookies look so crispy and absolutely delicious.
The sound of coconut in a cookie is making me tempting to make them. Yum
Cookies looks so good Gayathri and I was going to ask you about the 1/5 measurement. And I found the answer in your response. Good choice of recipe Gayathri…
love anything coconut and these cookies look great
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! What delicious cookies Gayatri! I love teh squares you have got. Had I tried they would be anything but squares.
Hello there,I have a problem for baking the masi samoa,it’s about 60minutes now and it’s still not done yet,follow all the instructions and bake 175 so it’s this the temperature I can bake mask popo please,let me know,thanks
Hi Lulia, I think there is some problem either with the dough or temperature settings. It takes only 15-20 minutes to bake the cookies at 175C.
Talofa and warm Pacific greetings Gayathri,
Is Sugar-2/5 cup, powdered that same as 6 tbsps of Sugar?
Seven tablespoons of sugar would be perfect..
Mam can I use whole wheat flour rather then maida
Yes, you can.
Note that the temp. is 175 celsius. That is 350 fahrenheit. So adjust for where you live.
Thank you for this recipe, will try it out with my husband. Sending lots of love from Samoa x