If you love coconut and aren't afraid of a few calories, I recommend
these. I used to get FrozFruit coconut popsicles, but they're not
available near me anymore, so I had to get creative.

It's very easy and there is isn't a strict recipe to follow. You will
need:

1 can coconut milk
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 bag of flaked coconut

Measure out almost enough coconut milk to fill your popsicle mold. Stir
in a little sweetened condensed milk until it's the sweetness you like.
(It doesn't take much so go slowly.) Throw in some flaked coconut and
freeze. Let out your pants and enjoy.

-jen

On 23 Dec 2005 16:41:07 -0800, "Jennyanniedots" >
wrote:

> Let out your pants and enjoy.

Any recipe that ends with those words sounds like a keeper to me! LOL!

Carol

Jennyanniedots wrote:

> 1 can coconut milk
> 1 can sweetened condensed milk
> 1 bag of flaked coconut


This sounds like something I have to make. For that can of coconut
milk, is that the stuff I buy at the Asian market for making tom ka gai,
or is it the stuff I buy at the liquor store for making pina coladas?
They're two different products, and you don't want to get them mixed up.
(Meaning: I don't want to get them mixed up AGAIN. The tom ka gai
(Thai coconut-lime-chicken-cilantro soup) made with the pina colada
stuff was one the world's truly horrible concoctions, and I made it for
Jim when he was sick, and he's never let me forget it.)


--Lia

Julia wrote:

>> 1 can coconut milk
>> 1 can sweetened condensed milk
>> 1 bag of flaked coconut
>
>
> This sounds like something I have to make. For that can of coconut milk,
> is that the stuff I buy at the Asian market for making tom ka gai, or is
> it the stuff I buy at the liquor store for making pina coladas? They're
> two different products, and you don't want to get them mixed up. (Meaning:
> I don't want to get them mixed up AGAIN. The tom ka gai (Thai
> coconut-lime-chicken-cilantro soup) made with the pina colada stuff was
> one the world's truly horrible concoctions, and I made it for Jim when he
> was sick, and he's never let me forget it.)

Seems to me that if it was the pina-colada stuff, you could just freeze it
directly, without the condensed milk or flaked coconut.

But yeah, using the coco-loco stuff for tom kha gai *would* be revolting.
<shudder>

OH GOD I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT THAT AND IT'S MAKING ME GAG!

Ahhh....Oreos save the day...

Bob

Bob Terwilliger wrote:

> Seems to me that if it was the pina-colada stuff, you could just freeze it
> directly, without the condensed milk or flaked coconut.


But the stuff I buy at the liquor store just says that it is cream of
coconut. It isn't mixed with pineapple or anything. Original poster:
tell us what brand of coconut you use when making this recipe.


As for making you gag ... glad to help!


--Lia

Lia wrote:

> But the stuff I buy at the liquor store just says that it is cream of
> coconut. It isn't mixed with pineapple or anything.

Not mixed with pineapple, but mixed with SUGAR. I'm looking at a can of
cream of coconut as I write this. The ingredient list on the label says,
"sugar, coconut, water, salt" and then a list of chemicals I don't feel like
typing out. The stuff is extremely sweet; there's no need at all to add
sugar to cream of coconut.

Go ahead and check the label on your liquor-store cream of coconut.

By contrast, looking at a can of coconut milk, I see "coconut extract,
water" and two chemicals. It isn't sweetened. So if you wanted something
sweet, you'd expect to add sugar -- like the sugar in a can of sweetened
condensed milk.

I'd be willing to bet that the OP used coconut milk rather than cream of
coconut. And as I said, you could simply pour cream of coconut directly into
a popsicle mold and freeze it into something like you'd get by following the
recipe with coconut milk.


> As for making you gag ... glad to help!

Hey, whose holiday celebrations aren't made better by a touch of bulimia?
Isn't that why the Romans came up with vomitoria?

Bob

bOOb Terwilliger wrote:

> > As for making you gag ... glad to help!
>
> Hey, whose holiday celebrations aren't made better by a touch of bulimia?
> Isn't that why the Romans came up with vomitoria?


Hey bOOb, Julia is saying you shouldn't get *too* close to her *strap -
on* ;---p

--
Best
Greg

Your recipe sounds good, I will try it.

In Cozumel, you can buy coconut popsicles in a bodega across the street
from the hospital. Theirs have plenty of coconut. I go there 3-4 times
a year and I never miss buying one. I have tried other flavors, but I go
back to the coconut.

Becca

Hi Julia,
Sorry for the long delay in responding.

I used coconut milk, the kind you get in the grocery store to make tom
kha gai. (I also make tom kha gai and have a great recipe!) - It's not
sweet at all. Just very, very rich. I'm not sure what "cream of
coconut" is, so I can't say if it's an acceptable substitute. Just use
the milk if you're in doubt.

-Jen