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Top rated Coconut recipes
3-Ingredient Coconut Balls

By happyfoodstube, Happy Foods Tube
These Raffaello coconut balls are no-bake & ready in just 15 minutes!
- 1½ Cup Desiccated Coconut
- ½ Cup Condensed Milk
- 1/8 Cup About 15 Hazelnuts or Almonds
This is the Coconut Layer Cake Of Your Dreams

Delight somebody with this easy and delicious coconut layer cake. It's the perfect birthday surprise!
Southern Style Strawberry Coconut Cake

By Annie13
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F
- 1 (18.5 ounce) box white cake mix
- 1 (3 ounce) package strawberry Jell-O
- 1 Tbsp. self-rising flour
- 4 teaspoons granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/3 cup fresh strawberries
- finely diced
- For the Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1 (8 ounce) block cream cheese
- softened
- 2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter
- softened
- 2 (1 pound) boxes powdered sugar
- pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
- pink food coloring
- strawberries for garnish
The Coconut Layer Cake Of Your Dreams

By Nadia Paprikas
Delight somebody with this easy and delicious coconut layer cake. It's the perfect birthday surprise!
Rava laddu

By dsathwa
Roast cashew and raisins in ghee and keep it aside
- Semolina ½ cup
- Ghee 1 tbsp
- Cashew ½ tbsp
- Raisins ½ tbsp
- Coconut grated ½ cup
- Sugar 2 tbsp
- Milk ¼ cup
- Cardamom powder ¼ tsp
Egg Curry

By Tanyadesigan, Easy and Simple Foods
A spicy southindian gravy made with spices and eggs
- boiled eggs - 4
- onion - 1 large
- coconut - 1/4 cup ground paste
- mustard seeds - 1/4 tea spoon
- ural dal -1/4 tea spoon
- Fennel seeds - 1/4 tea spoon
- bay leaf -1
- anistar - 1
- Oil -4 tea spoons
- To grind:
- ginger - 1 inch piece
- garlic - 3-4 gloves (The one I used are little big in size)
- Tomato -2 medium
- To roast and grind:
- channa dal - 1 table spoon
- coriander seeds - 1 table spoon
- Red Chilies - 3 (It was medium spicy
- you can increase the numbers to your personal taste)
- Pepper - 4-5
- cumin seeds - 1 tea spoon
- Fennel seeds - 1/2 tea spoon
- cinnamon - 1 small piece
- clove- 3-4
This Tropical Sangria Will Make You Feel Like You're on Vacation Already

No beach within your reach? Then bring the tropical paradise to your own patio!
Christmas Treat: Cherry Snowballs

By jamiikay
Maraschino cherries dipped in chocolate and rolled in coconut!
- - 24 Maraschino Cherries
- - 1 box semi-sweet baking chocolate
- - 1 can sweetened condensed milk
- - 1 bag unsweetened coconut
- * Note that you can substitute cherries for ju-jubes (we use red and green at Christmas). They end up tasting like the chocolate covered jellies in Bridge Mixture ~ Very yummy!
Haystack Cookies

By Sonyarene
In a pot melt margarine, then add sugar, cocoa and milk
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup margarine
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- Dash of salt
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 3 cups oats
- 1 cup coconut
Coconut Protein Brownies

By nickelet11, Smarte A La Carte
Have heard about the coconut water craze recently? I had but never really tried a recipe using it because it's alwa...
- 2 packets Ovaltine
- 1 cup chocolate coconut water
- 1/4 cup coconut flour
- 1/2 cup liquid egg substitute
- 2 scoops chocolate protein powder
- 1 tsp of baking soda
Daisy Cake

By Annie13
Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 350
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 4 Tbsp. butter
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
- room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- For the Topping:
- 9 Tbsp. butter
- melted
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 6 Tbsp. evaporated milk
- 1 1/2 cups shredded coconut
Coconut Poke Cake

By sarahsinagel
make white cake mix according to package directions
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
- 1 (14 ounce) can cream of coconut
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (16 ounce) package frozen whipped topping
- thawed
- 1 (8 ounce) package flaked coconut
Coconut Balls

By GaelleQh , blog Le blog de gaellelecolo
Reserve a small plate of coconut to coat
- For about 36 balls:
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk (Nestlé)
- 1 lb dried coconut
- mini cupcake wrappers
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More Coconut recipes
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Coconut Red Bean Soup
- 1 sweet onion
- diced
- 1 tbsp garlic
- minced
- 2 carrots
- diced
- 3 green onions
- sliced
- 1 sweet potato
- diced
- 1 tomato
- diced
- 1 lg can tomatoes
- crushed
- 1 tbsp red curry paste
- 1 tsp
- thyme
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/2 tsp allspice
- 1 tbsp coriander
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp creole hot sauce
- 2 cans red kidney beans
- rinsed and drained
- 2 cups coconut milk
- 1/2 tsp vegetable bullion
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Coconut Flour Pancakes
- 4 tbsp coconut flour
- 1/2 c unsweetened vanilla almond milk
- 5 drops liquid stevia (or other sweetener of choice)
- 1/8 tsp coconut extract (or vanilla
- maple
- etc.)
- 2 egg whites
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp sugar-free maple syrup (topping)
- 1 tbsp peanut butter
- slightly melted (topping – I used chunky coconut PB)
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Pina Colada Popsicles
- 1 can pineapple chunks
- in juice
- 1 banana
- 1 can coconut milk
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
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Vazhaikkai Puttu
- Raw banana: 2 nos (Medium)
- onion - 1/4(if you use 2 or 3 pearl onions
- ti gives the best taste)
- Green chili -1
- oil -to temper
- mustard seeds and urad daal - 1 tea spoon
- curry leaves - a few
- salt - as per taste
- Grated coconut _ 2 tea spoon (optional)
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Chocolate Coconut Overnight Oats
- 1/2 c Old fashioned oats
- 1 Tbsp Unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp unsweetened coconut flakes
- 1/8 - 1/4 tsp coconut extract
- 8 drops liquid stevia
- 1/4 c 0% plain greek yogurt
- 1/2 c Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk (I used Almond Breeze)
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angel salad
- 1-2 cans mandarin oranges
- 1-2 cans pineapple chunks
- 2-4 Tbsp angel flake coconut
- 1/2 -1 c mini marshmallows
- sour cream to moisten. (bout a tbsp)
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Somas with dried coconut
- All-purpose flour 1 cup
- Oil 1 tbsp
- Salt ¼ tsp
- Sugar ½ cup
- Dried Coconut
- grated ½ cup
- Cardamom powder ¼ tsp
- Water ¼ cup
-
coconut pie
- 1/2 c biscuit mix
- 3/4 sugar
- 4 eggs beaten
- 3 1/2 oz can of coconut
- 2 t vanilla
- 1 t butter
- pie crust
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Mothagam and kolukkattai.
- 1. For poornam:
- Chana dal - 1 cup
- Jaggery - 3/4 cup
- Shredded coconut - 1/4 cup
- Elachi - 1/2 teaspoon
- Ghee - 1 tablespoon
- 2. For kolukkattai:
- Raw rice: rinsed in water and dried...Grind it.
- Water.
- Salt and gingely Oil.
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Indian Rice Pudding
- - 2 cups of milk
- - 1/2 cup of rice
- - 2 1/4 sugar
- - 3 teaspoons of almond powder
- - 3 teaspoons coconut powder
- - Few strands of saffron soaked in water
- - 1 teaspoons powdered cardamom
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Rice Krispie Balls
- 1/2 cup margarine
- melted
- 1 egg
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 lb boiled dates
- at room temp
- 3 cups rice krispies
- coconut for rolling
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Shortcut Chocolate Coconut Cream...
- 1 chocolate cake mix
- prepared according to package directions
- but not baked
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- softened
- 6 tablespoons butter
- softened
- 3/4 cup coconut
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- sweetened whipped cream or whipped topping
- strawberries
- for garnish
- For the Chocolate Sauce:
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup half-and-half
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