This is one of my favorite go-to on the go snacks
This recipe was adapted from The Healthy Home Economist’s recipe. I love her website, she does a great job, so you’ll have to check it out soon.
These coconut chips remind me of cinnamon sugar toast. I used to toast up my mom’s homemade bread, slather it with butter and put about a quarter of an inch of cinnamon-sugar on top. I ate two pieces of that almost everyday. Now I have given up sugar and given up bread this snack brought my taste-buds back to the toast days. Kids will love this recipe. And they store in the fridge for a couple weeks (if they last that long). You can throw them in a little container and they are a perfect on the go snack.
Ingredients
2 Tablespoons organic butter or ghee
4 cups unsweetened coconut flakes, coarse
2 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon stevita stevia
½ teaspoon sea salt
Directions
- Heat a medium skillet on medium and melt the butter in the pan
- Pour the coconut flakes into the pan and stir with a wooden spoon to coat with the butter. Keep stirring and moving the coconut around on the pan until it starts to turn a golden brown. Be careful not to burn the coconut.
- Add in the cinnamon, stevia and salt and stir a few more times to coat each of the coconut flakes
- Take off of the heat and put in a glass bowl to cool. It will crisp up when cool. Store in an air tight container at room temperature
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Are coconut flakes that same as chipped coconut? Like this?
http://www.azurestandard.com/shop/product/6534//
Hi Valerie-
They don’t have a picture on Azures website, but based on the description, it sounds the same as the flakes. You just want to use a thick coconut so it’s more like chips and not something that’s not a finger food because its too fine! Let me know how you like the recipe!
I made some today. It’s very yummy, I hope the kids like it. It’s helping me get over my aversion to the texture of coconut. This makes it crunchy and very tasty. Thanks for posting the recipe. My daughter is not a fan of cinnamon, any ideas of could work in place of it?
I hope the kids like it! You could just take the cinnamon out of the recipe. Or replace it with cocoa powder. That would be really good… Cocoa coconut crisps!
How about replacing with cardamom, clove or allspice?
You could totally replace the spices! The sky’s the limit. Let me know how it goes!!
This recipe is delicious! Thanks!
I’m so glad you love it Kara!