382 coconut recipes

Chewy oatmeal slice with desiccated coconut and golden syrup baked until golden on the edges and soft in the middle. Just 7 ingredients and one bowl. Proper Aussie baking at its finest.

No-bake energy balls made with dried apricots, walnuts, coconut, and wheat germ, bound with orange juice and rolled in chopped nuts.

Five-ingredient magic bars with a soda cracker base, coconut, chocolate chips, nuts, and sweetened condensed milk. No mixing bowl needed. Ready in 30 minutes.

Trinidadian sugar cakes are chewy Caribbean coconut candies cooked in sugar syrup and tinted pink. A traditional street-fair sweet from Trinidad and Tobago.

This rich and moist cake made of candied cherries, pecans and coconut is bound to have you thinking about seconds.

This is a traditional Canadian sweet, much loved and admired. The origin of the recipe seems to be lost in the mists of time, though everyone seems to agree that it comes from the town of Nanaimo, in British Columbia.

Explore the jungle with this delicious bread made of bananas, pineapple, walnuts and coconut.

Pineapple macadamia nut cheesecake with a vanilla wafer crust, coconut, and a rum-kissed sour cream topping. A tropical Hawaiian-inspired cheesecake that beats any bakery version.

Green tomato soup with garlic, ginger, and cumin pureed smooth and finished with coconut milk. An Indian-inflected way to use up unripe tomatoes from the late-summer garden, garnished with yogurt, cashews, and cilantro.

Trey Trung Kroeung: Cambodian catfish simmered in a fragrant lemongrass kroeung paste and coconut milk. Authentic Cambodian fish curry with galangal, kaffir lime, and turmeric.

This is one of my favorites. Deep fried tofu with a peanut sauce for dipping. This one calls for pressing the tofu first. It makes it denser.

One of the best carrot cakes I've ever had with a decadent cream cheese frosting.

Cherry divinity is the pink church-cookbook candy: hard-ball sugar syrup whipped into beaten egg whites with cherry Jello, then loaded with chopped nuts and coconut. Old-fashioned, fluffy, festive.

No-cook tropical stuffed pears filled with a sour cream, crushed pineapple, coconut, marshmallow, and pecan mixture. A retro fruit salad side dish ready in 15 minutes.

Quick chocolate macaroons with just four ingredients: unsweetened chocolate, shredded coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and vanilla. Fudgy, chewy coconut cookies baked in 30 minutes flat.

Graham cracker cookies layer buttery crumbs, walnuts, chocolate chips, and flaked coconut, then bake with a brown sugar and evaporated milk drizzle. No mixing required. Also called magic bars or seven layer bars.