Ingredients Nuts + Seeds Nuts Coconut Cream Recipes By Food & Wine Editors Updated on May 1, 2017 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: © John Kernick Coconut cream is an excellent way to add flavor to desserts like chocolate truffles and chocolate cream. Whether you're looking for a classic coconut cream cake or non-dairy dessert ideas, these sweet recipes featuring coconut cream are sure to be a hit. 01 of 09 Coconut Cream Pie Every part of this fluffy pie from pastry chef Kierin Baldwin has coconut: the crust, the fillling and the topping. Go to Recipe 02 of 09 Chocolate Matcha Coconut Cups Blogger Molly Yeh created this brilliant recipe for homemade chocolate confections. The bite-sized cups are made with rich dark chocolate and filled with a matcha-coconut cream. Go to Recipe 03 of 09 Coconut Crème Caramel Coconut milk enriches and flavors this custard. Zang Toi suggests using fragrant pandan juice (from the palm-like pandan tree) instead of vanilla for a more Malaysian flavor. 04 of 09 Coco Loco © David Malosh Indianapolis bartender Ryan Puckett combines his penchant for tiki cocktails with a childhood favorite, orange soda floats; the result is this tropical orange-cream soda. "I'd make orange soda floats with my grandma, so that flavor pairing is something I've always loved," he says. Go to Recipe 05 of 09 Superrich Hot Chocolate with Coconut Cream Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson created this ultrarich hot chocolate topped with coconut cream for his partner Bobby Stuckey's wife, Danette, who has a sweet tooth. "At Frasca, we make a lot of desserts with chocolate or coconut, so we just kept going and came up with this drink," says Lachlan. Go to Recipe 06 of 09 Passion Fruit and Coconut Cream Parfaits © Ngoc Minh Ngo Pastry chef Koa Duncan of Los Angeles's Water Grill is incredibly creative. She's also remarkably persistent: Working as a pastry chef in a town that loves to diet is an uphill battle. Her fantastic passion fruit and creamy coconut parfait, layered with crunchy bits of cashew praline, is good enough for Angelenos to forgive themselves the indulgence. Go to Recipe 07 of 09 Roman's Dairy-Free Chocolate-Coconut Ice Cream © Quentin Bacon Rori Trovato of Rori's Artisanal Creamery in Santa Barbara, California, creates all kinds of ice creams. Ironically, her son, Roman, has become lactose-intolerant. "Poor guy," Trovato says. "His mom opens an ice cream shop and he can't have any!" That's why she created this dairy-free flavor. Go to Recipe 08 of 09 Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls with a Coconut-Orange Marmalade Frosting © Sarah Bolla These delicious dairy-free pumpkin cinnamon rolls are baked with a coconut oil-cinnamon sugar smear and topped with an orange marmalade sweetened-whipped coconut cream frosting. Go to Recipe 09 of 09 Coconut Mochi Ice Cream Sandwiches © John Kernick Pastry chef Jen Yee of Lafayette Grand Cafe & Bakery in Manhattan makes these fun and pretty sandwiches with a simple Japanese dough that combines sweet glutinous rice flour, sugar, water and coconut milk. Go to Recipe Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit