You’re right, almond extract would be a lot going on.
I love coconut but the sweetened shredded is SO sweet. How runny is the icing? Maybe you could thicken it by mixing the coconut into the icing instead of adding more sugar with white chocolate. Lemon-almond cookies with lemon-coconut icing.
I don’t ever use mixes so I really don’t know, but will be curious to see what you end up with!
Mmm, now I want something coconut 
