Add flour and baking powder to a mixing bowl. Beat together butter and brown sugar until creamy. Add flour, coconut, sugar with butter mix and make a soft dough with milk. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls on to cookie sheet lined with baking paper. Bake 10-12 minutes or until edges are golden. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet and remove to wire rack to cool completely.
In a heavy, medium saucepan, combine the milk, rice, sugar, ginger and orange zest. Scrape in the seeds from the vanilla bean and add the bean to the saucepan
