44 Sweet and Savory Ways to Eat Coconut Immediately

Hello and welcome to this thing we’re doing where we help you figure out what you’re gonna put in your mouth this week. Some of these are recipes we’ve tried, some of these are recipes we’re looking forward to trying, all of them are fucking delicious. Tell us what you want to put in your piehole or suggest your own recipes, and we’ll talk about which things we made, which things we loved, and which things have changed us irreversibly as people. Last week, we ate a bunch of tofu.

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The following recipes don’t just use coconut in all its forms — flakes, shredded, flour, oil, milk, cream, raw, toasted — they highlight it. (No macaroons are included. Screw macaroons.)

Sweet Coconut Recipes

1. Flourless Almond and Coconut Cake

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2. Piña Colada Cake

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3. Coconut Vanilla Bean Cake with Coconut Meringue Buttercream Frosting

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4. OMG Coconut Pound Cake

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5. Coconut Cake with Pale Ale Lime Cream Cheese Frosting

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6. Pavlovas with Lemon Coconut Cream

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7. Orange Spice Coconut Pumpkin Pie

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8. Raw Lime Coconut Pie

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9. Mixed Berry Streusel Pie with Coconut Ginger Whipped Cream

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10. Raw Vegan Lemon Coconut Bars (Gluten-Free)

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11. Coconut Bars

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12. Coconut Ladoo

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13. Coconut Sugar Cookies

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14. Coconut Brown Butter Cookies

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15. Salted Coconut Honey and Nut Bites

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16. Coconut Cream Cheese Brownies

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17. Coconut Bread

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18. Double Coconut Crunch Muffins

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19. Coconut Peach Chia Muffins

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20. Coconut Flour Blueberry Muffins

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21. Khao Niaw Mamuang (Sweet Sticky Rice with Coconut and Mango)

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22. Kuih Dadar (Coconut Crepes)

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23. Super Thick Coconut Yogurt

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24. Homemade Coconut Milk

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25. Creamy Vegan Coconut Hot Chocolate

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26. Frozen Piña Colada

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Savoury Coconut Recipes

27. Thai Coconut Cucumber Salad

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28. Coconut Curried Kale and Sweet Potato

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29. Coconut Creamed Spinach

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30. Crispy Coconut Cauliflower Bites

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31. Lime-Coconut Zucchini Carpaccio with Avocado-Pistachio Drizzle

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32. Coconut Chutney

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33. Coconut Hummus

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34. Coconut Bacon

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35. Coconut-Lime Pork Tacos with Black Beans and Avocado

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36. Coconut Curry Beer Chicken Soup

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37. Simple Summertime Basil Chicken Curry with Coconut Ginger-Lime Rice

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38. Coconut Chicken Satay

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39. Coconut-y Red Lentil Dal

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40. Curried Butternut Squash Soup

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41. Tom Kha Gai (Thai Coconut Soup)

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42. Coconut Rice

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43. Coconut Confetti Rice Salad

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44. Zucchini Coconut Noodles

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15 Comments

  1. oh my goodness. I love coconut so much. So. Much. These look delicious. Thank-you so much Carolyn!

  2. !!! This may be my favorite food thread yet. I eat coconut in almost every form I can find: coconut flour, coconut milk, coconut butter, coconut flakes. It finds my way into rice dishes, salads, muffins, pudding, and coffee. I am particularly stoked to try out some of those coconut soups and salads, like 27, 28, 39, and 40!

  3. Pavlovas are my new favorite baking treat. But I haven’t tried them with any coconut flavor yet, which now seems pretty much blasphemy as it’s one of my favorite flavorings! To the kitchen immediately!

    • You definitely have to try a coconut one immediately! I find the coconut can be overpowering if you’re used to more neutrally flavoured pavlova bases, but it can also be delicious.

  5. I love love love coconut. It’s right up there with lemon as my favorite thing to use in sweet and savory cooking. I like to put tons of coconut in my homemade granola. I’m definitely going to make some of these recipes! Especially all the coconut cakes and pies, mmmmmm.

    • As soon as the oven in my apartment gets replaced, I am making those coconut brown butter cookies!

    • Wait… Did I miss the memo in macaroons like I missed the memo that this article was published?! Oh but I wish I had the coconut cake recipe my future mother in law makes to share with you guys. I’m a connoisseur of coconut cake but hers is number one.

  8. i’ve made #14 several times now and I can’t vouch for it enough. IT ALSO HAS BROWN BUTTER MAKE IT RIGHT NOW.

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