Coconut Recipes

Buffalo chip cookies loaded with oats, corn flakes, chocolate chips, coconut, and pecans in a massive, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink drop cookie. Big, chunky, and over the top.

Southern-style bundt cake with buttermilk tang and coconut-rum flavor. The dense, buttery crumb stays moist for days. Perfect for family reunions and Sunday suppers.

Soft drop cookies made with mashed cooked carrots and shredded coconut, topped with a bright orange butter icing. Makes 4 dozen, great for holiday cookie trays and bake sales.

A showstopper lattice pie with three layers: almond cream cheese, fresh raspberries, and glazed cherries, all in a flaky homemade vinegar crust. Bake-sale worthy.

Cherry pinwheel slices with a flaky sour cream pastry rolled around cherry pie filling, coconut, and pecans, dusted with powdered sugar. An elegant holiday cookie.

Chiang Mai steaks feature pan-fried beef tenderloin in a rich peanut butter curry coconut sauce, garnished with kiwi and toasted coconut. Thai-inspired and ready in 40 minutes.

Flour-dusted chicken browned golden and simmered in a fragrant curry-tomato sauce with sweet currants, bell pepper, and toasted almonds. Served over rice with coconut and chutney for a vibrant one-pot dinner.

Chocolate can cake uses the chocolate syrup can as your measuring cup for sugar, flour, oil, coconut, and pecans. One bowl, no precise measuring, and a rich fudgy result.

Chocolate coconut cake topped with a boiled coconut-coffee-cocoa glaze that soaks into the warm crumb. Simple pantry ingredients for a rich, fudgy everyday cake with tropical coconut finish.

These cookies with a candy bar center, from Bev Bosveld of Waupun, are packed with coconut.

Thin, crispy butter cookies spread with melted semi-sweet chocolate and sprinkled with shredded coconut. A light, elegant cookie with lacy edges and a satisfying snap.

Chocolate-filled fruit oatmeal bars: a buttery brown-sugar oat crust with a rich melted chocolate, condensed milk, raisin, and coconut filling. Sheet-pan bars for crowds and cookie swaps.

Eye-catching pinwheel cookies made from cocoa-rich chocolate dough, shaped with corner-cut slits and filled with a sweet cream cheese and coconut center topped with chopped nuts. A stunning cookie tray showpiece.

Buttery coconut shortbread squares dipped diagonally in semi-sweet chocolate. A crisp, sandy cookie with toasted coconut flakes baked low and slow.

Chocolaty double cruncher cookies with rolled oats, crushed corn flakes, coconut, and a chocolate filling. A crunchy sandwich cookie with triple texture.

Not your grandma's carrot cake. This one's spiked with Coca-Cola, loaded with grated carrots, nuts, and coconut, then drenched in a hot cocoa-cola syrup that soaks right through the warm crumb. Serves 16.