Dessert, Coconut Recipes

Broiled pineapple fanned over crisp puff pastry rounds, pooled with a creamy pina colada sauce of coconut milk, rum, and egg yolks, dotted with strawberry syrup. Tropical dinner-party dessert.

Slow-baked rice pudding with almonds, coconut, and raisins. Cooked low and slow in milk until thick, creamy, and golden on top. Serve warm or cold.

Lemon love notes are buttery shortbread bars studded with coconut and bright lemon zest, finished with a tart lemon glaze and a flurry of toasted coconut, then cut into triangles. Bake-sale cookies that look as pretty as they taste.

Golden chocolate Bundt cake doctors a yellow cake mix with sour cream, milk chocolate bars, chocolate chips, pecans and coconut. Semi-homemade with bakery-style results.

Three-ingredient coconut macaroons with shredded coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and vanilla. Chewy, golden, and ready in under 25 minutes.

Carrot coconut cake made with a yellow cake mix, fresh carrots, orange juice, and a broiled coconut-pecan topping with brown sugar and butter.

Mini carrot cakes with chutney, coconut, walnuts, and warm spices baked in mini muffin tins. Topped with cream cheese frosting for bite-sized party treats.

Coconut custard pie with freshly grated coconut, beaten egg whites folded in for a light filling, and a dusting of nutmeg on top. Southern-style and old-fashioned.

Easter basket cake built from stacked round layers with green-tinted coconut grass, a foil-ribbon handle, and candy-studded sides. A showstopping family Easter dessert kids help decorate.

Honey macaroonies with oats, coconut, walnuts, brown sugar, and honey pressed into mini muffin cups and topped with candied cherries. No-egg, no-fuss bite-sized cookies.

Chocolate espresso macaroons with coconut, walnuts, and almond extract, held together by sweetened condensed milk. No flour, no eggs, chewy and intensely coffee-flavored.

Banana cream cake with a three-layer sponge cake filled with vanilla pudding and sliced bananas, frosted with sweetened whipped cream, and topped with toasted coconut.

Coconut chocolate cookie bars made with chocolate cake mix, flaked coconut, eggs, and oil. A 4-ingredient, one-bowl recipe mixed and baked in under 30 minutes.

Coconut lace cookies with corn syrup and brown sugar bake into thin, golden, web-like rounds with crisp caramelized edges. A fragile, old-school holiday cookie made from one bowl.

Amazing Red Velvet Cake with Coconut Frosting recipe

Apricot almond chewies are no-bake bites that bind dried apricots, toasted slivered almonds, and shredded coconut with sweetened condensed milk. Refrigerator cookies, no oven required.