Homemade cakes, homemade desserts are certainly tasty, fragrant, incomparable with purchased items. However, decorated, filled with cream, glaze, sprinkled with powder, they look much more appetizing.
Glaze is one of the easiest desserts to decorate. Among the variety of types and tastes, today we will give preference to coconut glaze. It is combined with all types of biscuit and dough, brings unique notes of taste and aroma.
Coconut Glaze - General Principles
Coconut glaze does not require many ingredients. The main ones:
• Coconut. It can be coconut, coconut milk, coconut essence.
• Sugar. It is better to choose powdered sugar, from it the icing is much more tender.
Additionally used depending on the desired consistency, density and other parameters:
• Lemon juice or tartar.
• Sour cream, milk, water.
• Eggs.
• Butter.
• Cheese.
• Nuts.
• Chocolate or cocoa.
• Aromatic additives: for example, vanillin.
All ingredients are thoroughly mixed, if necessary, melt in a water bath, achieve thickening by heat treatment. Apply in a cooled form to finished products.
Recipe 1. Coconut Glaze
Ingredients:
• icing sugar - 200 grams;
• lemons - 2 pieces;
• 2 handfuls of coconut flakes.
Cooking method:
1. Wash lemons, cut in half, squeeze the juice. You can use a juicer.
2. Pour powdered sugar into a small container, pour in lemon juice and mix well.
3. Pour coconut flakes and mix.
4. Lubricate the surface of different cakes or muffins with finished glaze.
Recipe 2. Coconut Glaze with Eggs
Ingredients:
• coconut essence - 10 ml;
• sugar - 14 tablespoons;
• 4 eggs;
• purified water - 125 ml;
• tartar - 15 grams.
Cooking method:
1. Carefully separate the egg whites from the yolks, put the yolks in the refrigerator, and pour the proteins into a deep metal cup.
2. Add tartar, water, and whisk with a mixer at medium speed for one minute. Instead of tartar, you can take regular lemon juice.
3. Place the cup with squirrels and tartar on another container with a smaller diameter water and heat for a couple of five minutes.
4. Turn off the heat, pour in the coconut essence and beat again at the same speed for two minutes.
5. Lubricate the surface of cakes, muffins and pastries with this glaze.
Recipe 3. Coconut Glaze with Cheese and Nutmeg
Ingredients:
• ricotta cheese - a little less than half a kilogram;
• 80 grams of butter;
• 15 grams of vanillin;
• high fat cream - 120 grams;
• 5 grams of ground nutmeg;
• 4 tablespoons of coconut flakes;
• powdered sugar - 250 grams.
Cooking method:
1. Put the ricotta cheese in a small cup together with softened butter and beat with a mixer for two minutes at medium speed.
2. Add vanilla, cream, nutmeg to the cheese and beat for another two minutes.
3. Without turning off the mixer, slowly pour in powdered sugar. If the mass turns out to be very liquid, then you can take powdered sugar a little more than the specified norm.
4. Pour coconut flakes and stir with a spoon.
5. Glaze different cakes and pastries. Also, you can not add coconut flakes to the whipped creamy mass: first grease the cake with icing, and then just sprinkle with coconut flakes.
Recipe 4. Chocolate Coconut Glaze
Ingredients:
• dark chocolate without additives - 80 grams;
• fat cream - 180 grams;
• powdered sugar - 200 grams;
• 60 grams of coconut flakes.
Cooking method:
1. Put the chocolate in a small metal cup, put on a second smaller diameter with water, melt by steam. Cool slightly.
2. Pour the cream into the chocolate, add the powdered sugar and beat with a mixer for 6-7 minutes.
3. Pour coconut flakes and mix until tender.
4. Use to water waffle cakes or glaze fruits.
Recipe 5. Coconut Glaze on Coconut Milk
Ingredients:
• coconut milk - 2 glasses;
• 300 grams of sugar;
• vanillin - 3 grams.
Cooking method:
1. Pour coconut milk into a metal container, add sugar and heat with frequent stirring for five minutes over moderate heat until the sugar dissolves.
2. After five minutes, turn off the heat, cool the icing and pour in the vanillin, stir and let stand for 40 minutes to thicken the mass.
3. When the icing thickens, grease cakes, muffins and pies with it.
Recipe 6. Coconut Glaze with Nuts
Ingredients:
• walnuts - 3 handfuls;
• 350 grams of sugar;
• 3 handfuls of coconut flakes;
• fat cream - half a small mug.
Cooking method:
1. Sort walnuts, chop in a blender. If there are no walnuts, you can take peanuts or hazelnuts, just pre-fry them a little in a dry pan.
2. Put cream in a deep bowl, add sugar and whisk for three minutes until the sand dissolves.
3. Pour coconut flakes, nuts into the creamy mass and mix well.
4. Coat the surface of cakes or pies with this glaze.
Recipe 7. Vanilla Coconut Glaze
Ingredients:
• coconut milk - a little more than one liter;
• 3 grams of vanillin;
• sugar - 450 grams.
Cooking method:
1. Pour coconut milk into a deep container, add sugar and beat in a hand blender for five minutes with a constant increase in speed.
2. Put a bowl of icing in the cold for several hours to thicken.
3. Use to grease the surfaces of cakes, pastries and various buns.
Recipe 8. Coconut Glaze with Sour Cream
Ingredients:
• fat sour cream - 180 grams;
• 180 grams of granulated sugar;
• vanillin - 10 grams;
• 1 handful of coconut flakes.
Cooking method:
1. Put sour cream in a bowl, pour vanilla, sugar, coconut flakes and beat with a mixer for five minutes until the mass acquires a white thick consistency.
2. Leave the finished glaze for 30 minutes to infuse.
3. Lubricate a variety of fruit pies.
Recipe 9. Coconut Glaze with Sugar Syrup
Ingredients:
• 2 handfuls of coconut flakes;
• vanillin - 2 grams.
For sugar syrup:
• purified water - 300 ml;
• 250 grams of sugar;
• 2 teaspoons of lemon juice.
Cooking method:
1. Cook sugar syrup: pour water into a small saucepan, add sugar, put on a stove, adjust medium heat and simmer for eight minutes until the syrup thickens. Remove from the stove, pour in the lemon juice, mix.
2. Cool the boiled sugar syrup slightly, pour coconut flakes, vanillin, mix thoroughly.
3. Coconut glaze according to this recipe is perfect for glazing different gingerbread cookies.
Recipe 10. Coconut Glaze with Milk
Ingredients:
• 300 ml of milk;
• 200 ml of coconut milk;
• 350 grams of sugar;
• 1 teaspoon of vanillin.
Cooking method:
1. Pour ordinary milk into a metal saucepan, add coconut milk and sugar, mix well and place on a stove over medium heat, boil until sugar is completely dissolved.
2. Remove the glaze from the heat, leave for half an hour to cool slightly.
3. Add vanillin, stir and refrigerate to cool.
4. Cover the surface of cakes or pastries.
Recipe 11. Coconut Starch Glaze
Ingredients:
• milk - 250 ml;
• sugar - 160 grams;
• potato starch - 30 grams;
• vanillin - 1 gram;
• coconut flakes - 140 grams.
Cooking method:
1. Put potato starch on a flat plate and place in the microwave for about fifteen seconds. This is necessary so that the starch does not give a taste of dampness.
2. Pour milk into a small metal mug, add sugar, put on a stove over medium heat, boil to a thick consistency.
3. Turn off the heat and cool the milk syrup a little.
4. Pour coconut shavings, vanilla and potato starch into the syrup. Be sure to mix continuously so that no lumps form.
5. Put the finished glaze in the refrigerator for full cooling and good thickening.
6. Such a glaze is very well suited for glazing various nuts.
Recipe 12. Diet Coconut Glaze
Ingredients:
• 4 tablespoons of brown sugar;
• 130 grams of coconut flakes;
• butter - 40 grams;
• 80 grams of nonfat cream.
Cooking method:
1. Put butter in a cup. It should be slightly melted.
2. Add brown sugar, coconut flakes and cream to the butter, whisk everything with a mixer for two minutes.
3. Refrigerate for three hours so that the glaze thickens slightly.
4. Use to grease diet cookies, gingerbread cookies, or cakes.
Coconut Glaze - Tips and Tricks
• If the glaze is thick, add some kind of liquid, such as milk. Liquid - pour some powdered sugar. Enter in the icing of any of their products is necessary in small portions.
• Do not apply icing on hot baked goods; it will flow, melt, and will not settle as it should.
• But it is not worth it to overcool the glaze too much, with time it thickens, and accordingly it will be much more difficult to apply it.
• If you want the icing to be more uniform, chop the coconut shavings in a blender first.
• In principle, you can prepare any favorite glaze from the products you have, and make it coconut, simply by introducing a small amount of shavings or essences.
