Showing posts with label coconut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coconut. Show all posts

Sunday, May 22, 2011

What to do with Chocolate Easter Bunnies...


I love after holiday sales!  I went to Dollar General the other day and I got these 3 Chocolate Bunnies for ten cents apiece.  What a savings!  Andy's cousins moved into a new house so I made these Chocolate Bunny Bars for them for a housewarming gift.  They were oooey gooey chocolate goodness and easy to make!  Enjoy :)

Chocolate Bunny Bars
Ingredients:
For the Base:
1 Devils Food Cake Mix
3 Chocolate Bunnies (I used the hollow ones)
2 Eggs
1/2 Cup of Vegetable Oil
1/4 Cup of Milk

For the Top:
1/2 Cup Cake Mixture
1/2 Chopped Chocolate Bunnies
3/4 Package Cream Cheese, chopped into small cubes
1&1/4 Cup Coconut

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray a 9 x 13 glass baking pan.
2. Chop Chocolate Bunnies into small pieces, then set aside.
3. In a large bowl, mix together cake mix, eggs, vegetable oil and milk.  Add 1/2 of the chopped bunnies.
4. Set aside 1/2 Cup of the mixture in another bowl for the topping.  Spread the rest of the cake mixture onto the bottom of the 9 x 13 pan.
5. In the other bowl, add the rest of the chocolate bunnies, coconut and creme cheese cubes.  Mix together with 1/2 cup of cake mixture.  When mixed, drop onto base in small dobs.  Make sure to dob evenly across cake base. 
6. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

What to do with coconut....

I don't normally buy coconut because I don't like the texture.  I love the taste, I love the smell, but not the texture.  My friend Kimberly gave me an extra bag of it to cook with and it's been sitting in my fridge for awhile, just waiting for inspiration to occur.  Lucky for us, it occurred last week in the form of a dessert recipe.  Growing up, my neighbor Cathy used to make us a dessert called dump cake.  This is a very easy pie/cobbler dessert where you just dump everything into a cake pan and bake.  I took that idea and used the coconut to make a cherry cream cobbler.  It is delicious and very simple to make.  It is a perfect summer dessert: fast, easy, and unforgetable :)


Cherry Cream Cobbler
Ingredients:
For the Crust:
1 Cup Almond Flour
1 and 1/2 Cups Pecan Meal
1 Cup Coconut
1 Stick of Butter


For the Filling:
1 Can Sweetened Condensed Milk
1 Can Cherry Pie Filling


1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray a 11" deep dish baking pan. 
2. Take out 2 bowls.  In one, mix together almond flour, pecan meal, and coconut.  In the other, mix together milk and cherry pie filling.
3.  Spray pie pan.  Pour milk and cherry pie mixture on batter.  Spread out evenly.  Pour flour and coconut mixture on top.
4. Melt butter.  Drizzle over the top of the cobbler.  Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.  Top will be golden brown when finished.  Serve with ice cream or whipped cream.