Lemongrass and Pandan Thumbprint Cookies

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By Abi Balingit

With these lemongrass and pandan thumbprint cookies, cookbook writer Abi Balingit gives the humble thumbprint cooky a Southeast Asian tropical flair. The dough is flavored with lemongrass, baked, dusted with confectioners’ sugar, and past filled with a creamy pandan kaya jam.

Using lemongrass paste helps to prevention clip alternatively of breaking down stalks of caller lemongrass. The cookies person fragrant notes of citrus, ginger and coconut.

From Abi Balingit, writer of "Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed" (Harvest, 2023) and blogger astatine The Dusky Kitchen.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 24 (makes 24 cookies)

8 tablespoons (1 stick/113 grams) unsalted butter, softened
1/3 cupful (67 grams) granulated sugar
1 ample ovum yolk, astatine country temperature
2 tablespoons lemongrass paste (see Where to buy)
1/2 spoon vanilla extract
1/8 spoon good salt
1 1/4 cups (156 grams) all-purpose flour, positive much for dusting
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
1/2 cupful (158 grams) pandan kaya jam (see Where to buy)

Nutritional Facts

Per cookie

Calories
94
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
13 g
Sodium
56 mg
Cholesterol
21 mg
Protein
1 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Abi Balingit, writer of "Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed" (Harvest, 2023) and blogger astatine The Dusky Kitchen.

Tested by Becky Krystal.

Published December 4, 2023

Updated March 17, 2026