coconut cream – Island Girl Cooks

Coconut Dark Chocolate Syrup

Coconut and dark chocolate go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly. One of my favorite (and easiest) ways to enjoy this flavor combo is this silky coconut dark chocolate syrup. You can make it in minutes and enjoy it for days. (Or just one day if you're a bit of a glutton like me.) Truly the most complicated step in this recipe is making sure you're choosing sweetened cream of coconut. It can be confusing when you're facing rows and rows of cans that say cream of coconut, coconut cream, and coconut milk, so here's a little explainer. Coconut cream is made from coconut milk that's chilled until [...]

#IslandFlavor: Coconut Milk Panna Cotta

Is there a flavor that takes you home as soon as it hits you? For me it’s always been coconut. I grew up on my grandparent’s finca, a farm where dozens of coconut palms lined the beach. Just thinking of those palms swaying gently in the breeze warms my skin. It doesn’t matter that it’s March and I’m walking around the house in a puffy jacket. In Puerto Rico the humble coconut has status and that status is #NationalTreasure. There are as many uses for it as there are selfies on Instagram. You can build with its husk. Its oil makes you prettier. More importantly its flesh tastes amazing with [...]