Holiday recipe: Coconut Almond Slice-and-Bake Butter Cookies

This holiday season, shake up your cookie tray with this coconut-almond butter cookie recipe from Nancy Silverton. She’s a James Beard Award-winning chef and baker behind Campanile, La  Brea Bakery, Osteria Mozza and Nancy’s Fancy gelato — and a renowned cookbook author whose latest book, “The Cookie that Changed My Life,” shares her tips for making perfect, classic American baked goods.

This recipe, she writes, comes from Fred Chino, a baker who’s part of the Chino Farm family in Del Mar, near San Diego.