What shall I do with a packet of coconut flakes?

[Dilbertian]

170g to be precise. I have no idea why it is in my cupboard - perhaps one of my teens bought it. It's not something I would normally ever use. But I'd rather use food than bin it.

Can I just fold it into cake mixture? Or would it be dry and crunchy and spill the texture?

What works you do with coconut flakes.

Use as a topping on something like a bakewell tart, or florentins?

I'd make granola... If you're interested in an share a recipe.

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Scatter over a curry e.g. www.ocado.com/webshop/recipe/coconut-chicken-curry/100106

‘Toast’ in a frying pan until lightly browned. Dry frying adds a lovely nutty flavour and works well scattered on coconut rice such as this.

I toast it and include it in muesli, along with sultanas and toasted seeds

It wouldn’t work in cake mixture, but you could use it as a topping, scattered onto the icing. I’d still toast it, tho, it’s far nicer toasted

Bin. The only place coconut flakes belong, is the bin.

@Pucarbuile

Bin. The only place coconut flakes belong, is the bin.

This!

Would like to see the recipe please NewYearEveryYear.🤞🏻

Toasted and then topping for crumble/porridge/curry.

Nice ideas there trickyex . Will try on a curry tomorrow

I put dessicated coconut (tiny flakes) into muffins, buns and brownies. I like the texture they add. Dh and dc complain about it but when I make half a batch with coconut and half without, they polish off the coconut buns first!

Toast and add to a stew or casserole.

I reduce the flour and sugar a little when adding coconut.

Hi always mix some desiccated coconut into my flapjacks, so if they’re bigger then whizz them up and make some flapjack.

Porridge

Mmm toasted - good idea. Might not even make it into a recipe if I toast it first

Keep a close eye on it when you toast it, it goes from nicely browning to burnt in a nanosecond

Use in Ottolenghis curried butternut curry with a crunchy gratin topping made from flaked coconut - In the Guardian.

Raw prawns, dip on egg, then the coconut, then fry/airfry. Serve with salad and Cajun marmelade (which you can knock up with marmelade and a teaspoon of cajun spice mixed together)

Add a couple of spoonfuls to Rice Pudding.