HERE’S WHAT’S UP: COOKING EXPERIMENTS

Published Jun 21, 2016

Updated Jun 09, 2024

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I had a couple of cooking experiments last week which I would like to share with you. They both feature the love of my life, coconut.

The first is this very popular snack in Cameroon called Coconut Sweet. It is toasted coconut flakes, sweetened with sugar. It is crunchy, sweet and packed with coconut flavour. It is one of those things I dream of when I think of home. For some reason, I’d never considered making mine though I occasionally find fresh coconut here. This was my first attempting at producing the snack.

I broke my coconut.

Took the flesh off the shell.

Shredded using a grater.

I made sure I ate some as I shredded.

At this point, I couldn’t figure out what to do next. So I turned to my food Facebook group for help. After a couple of ideas, I resorted to putting it in the oven and turning from time to time. I spread out the shreds on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. I sprinkled some sugar on top.

Then I toasted it while turning from time to time. Here is the result.

It didn’t quite taste or look like the one back home. My shreds were bent and not straight like the original coconut sweet The coconut flavour wasn’t as intense. Mr N says it’s because the coconut wasn’t fresh enough. All the same, everyone jumped at it. I managed to take another picture before they finished devouring it.

Then I made my first fruit pizza. Normally, fruit pizza crust is made with cookie dough but I wanted something totally healthy. So I combined whole wheat flour, oats, an egg, coconut oil and honey in a bowl.