132 coconut cream recipes

Pillowy coconut macaroons fold toasted shredded coconut into a glossy meringue base, then bake into chewy, golden-edged mounds. Six-ingredient flourless cookies with crisp edges and soft centers.

Devil's food cake imbibed with cream of coconut and sweetened condensed milk, it is reminiscent of a tres leches cake. Topped with whipped cream and a sprinkling of toasted coconut, it's an easy to do treat.

Mango ice cream made without a machine, blending ripe mango and papaya with a whipped egg-yolk custard, thick cream, coconut milk and ground almonds, then frozen in a mould until scoopable.

Cool and creamy pumpkin pie folds whipped cream into a butterscotch-pudding pumpkin filling spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg, then chills in a cinnamon-sugar-glazed crust. A no-bake pumpkin pie that skips the oven entirely.

No-bake cappuccino truffles rolled in cocoa-sugar or coconut, made with instant coffee, marshmallow cream, chocolate wafer crumbs, and pecans. Makes 60 bite-sized treats in 30 minutes.

Orange chocolate truffles, a cream-based ganache with fresh orange zest and extract, rolled into four different coatings: ground pistachios, cocoa powder, shredded coconut, and chocolate jimmies. Easy holiday candy.

These decadent cherry cream cheese bars will well satisfy your cravings for something rich and sweet. They are made with whole wheat flour, light cream cheese, homemade cherry pie filling, a small amount of butter and some olive oil. Much healthier but still tastes delicious. Nobody can resist these sweets, the more importantly you don't have to feel guilty about it.

I added some pureed strawberries and a couple of drops of red food coloring to make the cake pink.

Frozen tropical cocktail with rum, pineapple juice, and coconut cream, rimmed in strawberry puree and coconut, then floated with dark rum. Five minutes to paradise.

Kahlua frost is a blender cocktail with coffee liqueur, cream of coconut, vanilla ice cream, and ice. Think mudslide meets piña colada: creamy, boozy, and built for warm nights.

Orange macaroon drink blended from orange juice, coconut cream, almond extract, and crushed ice. A tropical, creamy smoothie that tastes like a liquid macaroon in just 5 minutes.

South Indian green prawn curry with a fresh ginger-garlic-scallion paste, coconut cream, mustard seeds, and fennel. Plump prawns simmered until just tender. Serve over rice.

Two-layered Thai steamed coconut cups with a dark brown sugar coconut base and a creamy white coconut cream topping. A traditional vegetarian Thai dessert made with rice flour, naturally gluten-free.

Ah there's no place like home when you're this far away.

Midori cake is a pale-green Bundt built on yellow cake mix and pistachio pudding, soaked with melon liqueur and finished with a Midori-cream cheese glaze. Retro doctored cake mix at its showy best.

Pina colada pie layers pineapple sorbet over a macadamia-coconut crust, then crowns with rum-spiked coconut frozen yogurt and fresh pineapple. Frozen tropical cocktail in pie form.