Dessert, Coconut Recipes

Cherry date skillet cookies skip the oven entirely. Buttery dates and brown sugar bubble together in a skillet, then bind with rice cereal, coconut, and maraschino cherries into chewy, no-bake bites rolled in coconut.

No-bake Kahlua cocoa balls made with vanilla wafer crumbs, pecans, cocoa, golden raisins, and candied cherries. Roll in coconut, powdered sugar, or nuts.

Joy's carrot cake folds crushed pineapple, pecans, and cinnamon into a tender crumb, finished with cream cheese icing loaded with coconut, raisins, and toasted nuts. A bakery-style classic.

No-bake peanut butter snowballs with chopped dates and walnuts, dipped in icing and rolled in coconut. Christmas cookie tin classic. No oven, kids love them.

Dense tube cake loaded with apples, coconut, and pecans. Bake 90 minutes, then soak with hot buttery brown sugar topping poured over.

Flaky Asian pear and lychee strudel with phyllo dough, crystallized ginger, toasted coconut, walnuts, and Chinese five spice. A showstopping fusion dessert dusted with powdered sugar.

Crunchy drop cookies packed with oatmeal, flaked coconut, and corn flakes in a buttery brown sugar base. They spread thin and crisp up with golden, lacy edges in just 12 minutes.

I have made this pie several times, and everytime is a hit. The pineapple and coconut is a great combination. Very tasty pie.

No-bake coconut candy balls with a melted chocolate center, made from just 5 ingredients. A prize-winning recipe that's freezer-friendly and looks stunning on holiday cookie trays.

Cake mix cookies with just 3 ingredients: boxed cake mix, eggs, and oil. Soft, chewy, and ready in 30 minutes. Add raisins, nuts, or coconut for extra texture.

A scrumptious bread pudding made with pina colada drink mix, pineapple juice, bananas and cream of coconut.

German sweet chocolate snack cake with coconut-pecan frosting: a buttermilk-tender chocolate sheet cake topped with the classic toasted coconut and pecan caramel frosting.

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.

Baked sweet potato pudding with raw grated sweet potatoes, flaked coconut, evaporated milk, butter, cinnamon, and nutmeg. A Caribbean-style comfort dessert that's creamy, coconutty, and golden-topped in just over an hour.

Fruit-packed drop cookies with crushed pineapple, dried papaya, golden raisins, coconut, and orange zest. Soft, chewy, and naturally sweet from all that tropical fruit. Ready in 40 minutes.

Coconut angel food cake folds shredded coconut into a fat-free egg-white batter, then frosts the cooled tube cake in seven-minute orange frosting and toasted coconut.