Coconut Cookie Recipe

For many, baking is a chemistry experiment gone horribly wrong, or just maybe, wonderfully correct. The variables of oven heat, local water properties and each manufacturers subtle differences in oil and flour quality can turn the best recipe into a kitchen nightmare. The true secret is to never give up and to keep adjusting your recipe to your own taste.

One of the most common problems with cookie recipes, is what to do with the butter. Butter has amazing properties and flavors that cannot be duplicated by other oils. It does however have one of the lowest melting temperatures of all of the baking oils and can cause your cookie to flatten into a gigantic mess. Solution, integrate some equal parts of shortening into your recipe. For every ounce of butter taken away, add an ounce of shortening. Also ball and refrigerate your cookie dough before putting it onto a pan and into the oven. Lastly double pan your cookies, so the heat is more evenly distributed and no too hot on the bottom side of your cookie. This will eliminate cookies that get burned on the bottom.

I have yet to see a cookie recipe made with all purpose flour that could not be improved by substituting some cake flour into the recipe. Start with a one third substitution and see if this makes your cookie a little lighter and easier to chew. For some super added flavor, use a premium cake mix. I use a spice cake mix in one of my recipes for the most amazing Christmas cookies you will ever taste. Chocolate and vanilla cake mixes do an amazing job as well. If you have a favorite cake mix, it would be a perfect candidate to try in a cookie recipe.

Thirty years ago it would have been very hard to find a chewy cookie. Famous Amos made a fortune selling a nice tasty chocolate chip cookie that was neither soft nor chewy. Today chewy cookies are all the rage. If your recipe doesn’t have any brown sugar in it try substituting a portion of brown sugar for regular white sugar. The key is to keep experiment until you have to exact consistency that you desire.

Coconut Curry Recipe

Do you eat out quite often or tend to eat quick junk food? Not all quick food is as bad as they say.

What we tend to hear about a lot these days is that we seem to be eating quick meals more and more; probably due to the fact that we always seem to be in a rush. We have busy lives and schedules to meet and therefore time has become more of a precious commodity.

I have included a great spicy chilli recipe for you in this article that is not only quick and easy to cook and tastes absolutely delicious, but because it doesn’t require you to cook the living life out of it, it will still contain most of it’s goodness – that is vitamins and minerals, as well as being very nutritious. Only a small amount of oil is required to cook this fine dish.

You’ll find that this meal oozes all the flavours that are normally lost when you order a greasy take-away and this dish will not be dripping with oil and fat.

Another important bonus is, that when you cook it yourself, it will not only cost you a fraction of what it would if you were to order a delivery or take-away but you get bundles more.

Here is your Spicy Chilli Recipe:

Hot n’ Spicy Stir-Fry Beef

Coconut Cake Recipes

Are you looking for coconut shrimp recipes or delicious shrimp recipes? Here are three shrimp recipes using coconut milk:

Shrimp with Coconut Milk

1 medium onion, finely chopped
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon butter
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
1 pound tomatoes, peeled, seeded and blended in blender or food processor
1 pound shrimps,peeled and deveined
1 cup unsweetened coconut milk
1/2 tablespoon crushed chili peppers
Salt to taste

In a saucepan, heat oil and butter; sauté garlic and onion for 3 minutes. Add tomatoes, season with salt and cook under low heat for 15 minutes. Add shrimps and chili peppers. Cook until shrimps are done (around 10 minutes) and the sauce is thickened. Add the coconut milk and cook for 2 minutes more. Serve with rice.

Shrimp Skewer with Coconut Dip

24 large cooked shrimps, peeled and deveined
4 tablespoonslight soy sauce
Juice from one orange
3 tablespoons dry Vermouth
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 small pineapple
1 bunch scallions
24 cherry tomatoes
Freshly ground black pepper
Oil to fry

For the Dip:
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut milk
1 cup whipping cream
Salt, pepper, cayenne pepper
1-2 teaspoon lemon juice

Coconut Chicken Recipe

This recipe makes a great chicken pot pie without preservatives (no need for them because this won’t stick around for long in your refrigerator).

2 (9-inch) deep dish frozen pie crusts, thawed
1 (15 oz.) can mixed vegetables, drained
2 cups chicken breast, cooked and diced
1 (10.75 oz.) can condensed cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup milk

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a bowl, combine the mixed vegetables, chicken, cream of chicken soup and milk. Pour mixture into one of the pie crusts. Turn over the other crust and pop it out of the tin and onto the top of the filled pie. Seal the edges and poke holes in top crust.

Bake for 30 minutes or until crust is golden brown.

=> Chicken Pie Recipe: Bisquick Chicken Pot Pie Recipe

This classic Bisquick recipe has been around for ages. It’s easy to make and it’ll be a favorite for years to come.

1/3 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup Bisquick
1/3 cup onion, chopped
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/8 teaspoon thyme
1/2 cub chicken broth
2/3 cup milk
1 3/4 cup chicken
10 oz. pkg. frozen peas and carrots

Coconut Bread Recipe

My kids love pitta (or pita) bread, those flat round breads that open into pockets that can be stuffed with anything and eaten in your hands, the ultimate takeaway food package. I first encountered it as a container for falafel, spiced chickpea patties and salad, a trendy urban street food in London way back then.

Now I use pitta bread as a freezer standby for lunch times when I discover we've run out of bread. Just pop a round into the toaster to defrost, then spread inside with cream cheese or ripe avocado and fill with cucumber slices or diced tomato, or cooked chicken and salad, to provide an instant popular meal. Recently though the pack of six breads, that I so casually toss into the shopping trolley and then into the freezer, seem to have got ridiculously expensive for such a simple food, more than twice the price of a loaf of bread and they vanish in an instant.

I turned to my Madhur Jaffrey Cookbook, the authority on all foods Indian and Middle Eastern, to see how complicated it would be to make my own pitas. It seemed no different to making ordinary white bread, just with the extra step of rolling the rounds and cooking them individually. Her recipe also makes twelve breads, so I had visions of having six for one meal and being able to stock the freezer again for another emergency.

I should have known my family better. The resulting breads were so delicious - warm, soft and fluffy inside, without the hard leatheriness of the bought ones - that they all disappeared in a twinkling, with just one half-piece left at the end of the meal and no photographs taken to show for it. The softer consistency made them a little less resilient as pockets than the bought pita, but we did eat them straight from the oven. I think cooling and then reheating them, or baking for an extra minute, would toughen the outside just enough to hold the fillings well without losing the inner softness.

Coconut Rice Recipe

Rice is among the most heavily cultivated of all grains and is the cultivated crop, which is eaten by more people around the world than any other is. In much of Asia, Africa and South and Central America as well as Mexico. It is hard to imagine Mexican cuisine without rice; after corn, it is the most important staple of the Mexican diet, with a large number of Mexican rice recipes being classic examples of Mexican cooking.

As central as rice is to Mexican cooking, it is a relatively recent arrival in the grand scheme of things, having arrived in what is now Mexico with colonists and explorers from Spain and Portugal. The peoples of the new world took to the new grain with enthusiasm and rice was soon one of the most important staples in the Mexican kitchen. Some of the dishes, which are now considered to be traditional Mexican rice recipes date from the early days after rice, began to be cultivated in the Americas.

Authentic Mexican Rice Recipes

Arroz con pollo is both a classic Mexican rice dish and a classic Mexican chicken dish. From the Spanish for "rice with chicken," this is the Mexican take on this timeless comfort food and it is an incredibly satisfying one. This is one Mexican rice recipe you may want to try making at home - it is a great change of pace from the familiar American version with canned soup.

Arroz con pollo is an excellent example of how recipes, which originated in Spain, became Mexican recipes through adaptation to use locally available ingredients as well as to work in flavors and ingredients, which became popular with the European settlers. In the case of this recipe, tomatoes found their way in to the cooking pot, as did the more assertive Mexican oregano as a substitute for the European variety, which was unavailable in the country.

Coconut Pie Recipe

Here’s a great way to use up that leftover turkey.

2 (9-inch) unbaked pie shells
1 (10.75 oz.) can condensed golden mushroom soup
1 cup turkey, cooked and chopped
1 (10 oz.) can mixed vegetables, drained
1/3 cup milk

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place one pie crust in an ungreased pie dish.

In a medium bowl, mix the mushroom soup and milk. Stir in the turkey and mixed vegetables. Pour the mixture into the pie crust in the dish. Top with the other pie crust; seal the crust edges by crimping with a wet fork.

Bake for 45 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown.

=> Meat Pie Recipe: Five Star Pork Pie Recipe

This is a hearty meat pie recipe featuring ground pork, ground beef, mashed potatoes and spices.

2 (9-inch) unbaked pie shells
2 pounds lean ground pork
1 pound lean ground beef
1 1/2 cups mashed potatoes
Salt and pepper to taste
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 egg white

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Thai Coconut Recipe

Bamboo Shoots: Bamboo shoots are called for in many Thai recipes. In order to prepare a bamboo shoot for cooking you need to peel them and boil the white inner stalks for 30 minutes in water. If you are using canned bamboo shoots you will only need to boil them for 10 minutes, or if they are going into curries or soups, boiling might not be required.

Basil (fresh): There are three types of basils used in Thai cooking; sweet, holy and lemon. Sweet basil is much easier to find because it is commonly used in western cooking. Holy basil has a spicier taste and can be recognized by it’s slightly purple leaves. Lemon basil has a lemony flavor and can be detected by its distinct lemony scent. If you can only find sweet basil you can compensate for holy or lemon basil by adding finely chopped chili peppers or a bit of lemon rind.

Bergamot: Also known as kaffir lime leaves has a slightly limey flavor which goes well with all Thai dishes. Since this may be hard to find, granted lime rind can be used in its place although it is a poor substitute.

Chili paste: This can be bought in bottles or tubes in almost any supermarket. Used for adding spice and flavor to most dishes, a particularly popular version by Thai cooks is burnt mild chili paste.

Chinese mushrooms: Mushrooms are added to a lot of Thai cooking and many people chose to use the dried variety because they are cheaper and have just as much flavor and nutritional value. You will need to soak the mushrooms in warm water for 30 minutes before using them and the stems are usually discarded because of their tough nature.

Coconut Cream Recipe

Ice cream my favorite.Everyone love ice cream. It's accepted by all walk of life.There are many flavor and taste can be found in ice cream now days.My favorite of all time flavor is the strawberry ice cream. I have figured ways and method on making it after i have try various commercial strawberry ice cream that not only don't taste good but it's costly as well.I have done some studies on how to create own homemade strawberry ice cream and i have found this strawberry ice cream recipe quite useful and practical

The ice cream equipment that needed for this strawberry ice cream recipe are ice cream maker(prefered Cuisinart ice cream maker),Blender,2 mixing bowls,spoon,cups and whisk. These equipements are needed if you want to perform this strawberry ice cream.Take note that you also have to follow the strawberry ice cream recipe carefully inorder to produce the ideal strawberry ice cream.

For this strawberry ice cream recipe, we need few simple ingredient that can be found at the nearby grocery store.The ingredients needed are 4 cups half and half,2 cups of whipping cream, 2 1/2 cup sugar, 4 eggs, half teaspoon of vanilla and lastly 6 cups of strawberry.Make sure all the ingredients are fresh.It's because ingredient used will affect the quality of strawberry ice cream made.

First of all, what we need to do is crush the strawberry and we are going to use the blender to perform this strawberry ice cream recipe.Put the 6 cup of strawberry into the blender.Food processor can also be an alternative equipment for blender.Crush these strawberry in the blender until there are no chucks of strawberry visible.Then place the mixture into a bowl and wait for the next steps.

Coconut Frosting Recipe

Home cooks most generally use the term frosting and icing interchangeably. This can cause confusion.

In order to reduce that confusion I like to make a distinction between the two on my website.

Frosting

Frosting is a fluffy, thick concoction that will hold its shape. You can pipe decorations with it like you see on cakes.

Even though it holds a shape it stays soft and keeps its creamy texture.

There are as many variations of frosting recipes, as there are cookie recipes. One of the most popular is butter cream.

Even within the butter cream category there is no one definitive recipe.

It seems that every country that can get its hands on butter has its opinion of what butter cream frosting should be. Some are made with eggs and butter. Some varieties you have to cook sugar to a softball stage.

There are others that use shortening or a combination of shortening and butter. Still others don't use butter or shortening at all but another substance such as peanut butter.

A simple butter cream is just butter, sugar, flavoring and a liquid beaten and beaten until it is light and fluffy. It can be flavored with most any flavoring and colored any color during the beating stage.

Coconut Butter Recipe

Carmelized Banana and Peanut Butter Toast

Turn simple bananas and peanut butter into a delicious gourmet breakfast with just a few extra minutes of cooking.

Nonstick cooking spray
1 banana, cut in half lengthwise
1 slice 2:90 whole-wheat bread
1 tablespoon natural peanut butter
Pinch of ground cinnamon
Pinch of ground nutmeg

Heat an 8-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. Spray with nonstick cooking spray. Place the halved bananas, cut-side down, in the skillet and cook for 2 minutes. Turn the bananas over and cook for another 2 minutes, or until soft and golden-brown.

While the bananas are caramelizing, toast the bread, spread with the peanut butter, and sprinkle with the cinnamon and nutmeg. Cut the caramelized bananas in half crosswise and arrange side by side on the peanut butter.

Serves 1

CALORIES 280; FIBER 6g; FAT 9g; PROTEIN 9g; CARB 42g; SODIUM 160mg

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Banana Coconut Recipe

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The joy of dessert is alive and well this evening. The crêpes are sweet and decadent, but the fruit and whole-wheat flour make them healthful.

1/3 cup non-fat dry milk powder
3 1/2 tablespoons whole-wheat flour
1 teaspoon sugar substitute
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon canola oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon coconut extract
Nonstick cooking spray
1/2 banana, sliced
2 pitted dates, chopped
4 toasted pecan halves, chopped
1 teaspoon semisweet chocolate mini-morsels

In a small bowl, combine the dry milk, flour, sugar substitute, cinnamon, and baking powder. Whisk in the water, oil, vanilla, and coconut extract until the batter is smooth. A few lumps in the batter are okay.

Heat an 8-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. Spray with nonstick cooking spray. Remove the skillet from the heat and pour in half of the batter. Lift and tilt the skillet to spread the batter across the bottom. Return the skillet to the heat and cook for 30 seconds. Carefully turn over the crêpe with a spatula, and cook the second side for another 30 seconds. Slide the cooked crêpe onto a plate and repeat the cooking process with the remaining batter.

Arrange half of the banana slices, dates, pecans, and chocolate morsels across the lower third of each crêpe. Lift the bottom edge of each crêpe and roll it up to serve.

Coconut Cake Recipe

Ice Cream Cake Recipe – Cooling Off With Homemade Ice Cream Cake!

When the temperature is well pass 100 degrees, and your kids are sitting around complaining about the heat that is the best time to breakout the ice cream cake recipe. It is the cake recipe that keeps on giving. It will satisfy any sweet tooth while cooling down your body temperature. Your kids will not care which flavor combination you use, they will just be happy to have their cake and ice cream.

Making an ice cream cake sounds complicated, but an ice cream cake recipe can be easy to follow. The main ingredients are ice cream, cake batter, frosting and the toppings of your choice. You can use any flavor combination you choose, making your combination choices endless. As for utensils, you will need to make sure you have two cake pans, plastic wrap and foil.

Before you get started, you will need to put one of the cake pans in the freezer to chill. Once the cake pan has chilled you will want to line the pan with plastic wrap. This will keep the ice cream from sticking. Spread the ice cream evenly in the chilled cake pan. You will want to make sure you cover any air holes. Once that is complete, cover the pan with foil and place back in freezer.

Following the instructions on the outside of cake box, mix the cake batter. Place the mixed cake batter in the second cake pan. To keep the cake from sticking, do not forget to oil and flour the second cake pan. After the cake has finished cooking, leave it out to cool.

Chocolate Coconut Recipe

Chocolate is one of the oldest processed foods enjoyed over the past millennium. It came from the tropical tree called cocoa. This tree is native to South America, Central America and Mexico. The seeds of the cocoa tree are dried and fermented and finally grounded and liquefied. As a result of these processes, pure unsweetened chocolate is formed.

There are different kinds of chocolate. Each is classified according to its composition and color. Milk chocolate is the combination of sugar, cocoa butter and milk. It is considered not a true chocolate because of the absence of cocoa solids formed from the processes involved in production of pure chocolate. White chocolate can be consumed by animals. The addition of sugar and fats makes up the third kind of chocolate. Dark chocolate has high cocoa content and is believed to have health benefits by reducing the occurrence of heart attack. One example of dark chocolate is semisweet chocolate which is used in cooking recipes. Sometimes vanilla is added for a more pleasing aroma.

Chocolate is enjoyed in a wide variety of preparations nowadays. If one would go to a nearby restaurant, cafeteria or snack bar, one would definitely come across chocolates in various attractive servings ranging from breads, cakes, drinks and ice creams.

Below is an easy chocolate dessert recipe that you can enjoy doing. It’s a recipe on how to make your ice cream richer, creamier and attractive when served after a sumptuous meal. It is very easy to prepare.

Coconut Recipes

Here’s a great way to use up that leftover turkey.

2 (9-inch) unbaked pie shells
1 (10.75 oz.) can condensed golden mushroom soup
1 cup turkey, cooked and chopped
1 (10 oz.) can mixed vegetables, drained
1/3 cup milk

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place one pie crust in an ungreased pie dish.

In a medium bowl, mix the mushroom soup and milk. Stir in the turkey and mixed vegetables. Pour the mixture into the pie crust in the dish. Top with the other pie crust; seal the crust edges by crimping with a wet fork.

Bake for 45 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown.

=> Meat Pie Recipe: Five Star Pork Pie Recipe

This is a hearty meat pie recipe featuring ground pork, ground beef, mashed potatoes and spices.

2 (9-inch) unbaked pie shells
2 pounds lean ground pork
1 pound lean ground beef
1 1/2 cups mashed potatoes
Salt and pepper to taste
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 egg white