Dessert Recipes

Light, chewy coconut macaroons made meringue-style from whipped egg whites and grated coconut, sweetened sugar-free and scented with almond. Naturally gluten-free, and lovely topped with a glace cherry.

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 chewy cookies use sweetened condensed milk to bind dark chocolate, shredded coconut, and pecans. A 6-ingredient flourless cookie with macaroon chew and brownie depth.

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

Chocolate coffee coconut cream pie: a silky chocolate custard infused with coconut milk and a hit of espresso, folded with shredded coconut and chilled in a flaky pre-baked crust. Three-flavor showstopper.

Lower-calorie chocolate ripple cake baked in a clay pot with a coconut cream cheese swirl. Made with nonfat cream cheese, egg whites, and fat-free sour cream. Serves 12.

Moist chocolate sour cream layer cake with fluffy cocoa frosting, toasted nuts, coconut filling, and chocolate-dipped strawberries. A showstopper for birthdays and celebrations.

Chocolate-coconut layer cake with tender buttermilk chocolate layers, flaked coconut folded through, and a rich walnut-chocolate filling between whipped cream layers.

No-flour chocolate coconut cookies made with melted unsweetened chocolate, sweetened condensed milk, shredded coconut, and pecans. Naturally gluten-free, chewy, and fudgy.

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.

Citrus Molasses Candied Bananas with Coconut recipe

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.

Coco-Chips bars with a graham cracker crust, shredded coconut, chocolate chips, and sweetened condensed milk baked into gooey, chewy squares. A 5-ingredient magic bar that never fails.

Vintage Cocomalt macaroons with shredded coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and chocolate-malt powder. A Depression-era cookie with chewy edges and a soft, malty center.