Coconut Recipes

My husband's baseball team prefers these cookies to chocolate chip..... if I make anything else, I have to have Alabama's too!

Light and fluffy Christmas snowball cookies. Lighter and lower fat than most Christmas cookies and faster to make (no need to refrigerate overnight).

Carrot cake layered with grated carrots, crushed pineapple, walnuts, coconut, and raisins, topped with orange-scented cream cheese frosting. Three layers of moist, spiced cake that gets better overnight.

Moist pineapple 7-Up cake made with yellow cake mix, pineapple pudding, and real Seven-Up soda. Topped with a homemade coconut-pecan frosting loaded with crushed pineapple. A retro Southern sheet cake classic.

Crispy Rice Krispies cookies with butter, brown sugar, and optional coconut. Baked cookie balls with a crunchy cereal crunch in every bite. Makes 6 dozen.

This was the best pie that I have ever made and I have made quite a few. It taste like the most decadent dessert ever.

They stay moist, keep beautifully, are the perfect gift or food-bazaar item, and the recipe makes a huge batch.

Orange sourdough muffins with banana, shredded coconut, and a tangy starter base. A clever way to use sourdough discard for tropical-flavored breakfast muffins.

Famous Amos copycat chocolate chip coconut cookies with flaked coconut, chopped pecans, and semi-sweet chips in a buttery brown-sugar dough. Bigger and chewier than the bag version.

Bette's coconut cake is a buttermilk tube cake soaked in hot coconut syrup for a moist, sticky-sweet finish. Loaded with flaked coconut and chopped nuts in every slice.

Moist spice cake loaded with four cups of chopped apples, raisins, cinnamon, and nutmeg, baked in a sugar-dusted pan until the fruit turns tender and sweet.

Pina colada pound cake folds crushed pineapple, shredded coconut, and coconut rum into a buttery bundt, then soaks the warm cake in a rum-pineapple glaze. Tropical dessert all year.

The carrot cake was super moist and delicious, and the icing was buttery and creamy. Such an indulgence. I guess there are plenty of good-for-me stuff in the cake, so I shouldn't feel bad about eating one slice or two :)

Traditional Trinidad coconut bread made with fresh grated coconut, evaporated milk, and a sugar-sprinkled crust. A Caribbean staple that's even better toasted for breakfast the next morning. Makes 2 loaves.

Coconut raisin bread made with freshly grated coconut, evaporated milk and warm cinnamon. A tender, lightly sweet quick bread that bakes into two golden loaves with chewy raisin pockets throughout.

Lemon Lassie cookies, a Christmas classic with cinnamon-molasses dough wrapped around a tangy lemon-coconut curd filling, then sliced into bars before baking.