Coconut Cheese Cookies with Desiccated Coconut, Tasty and Fragrant

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There are so many coconut-based cakes, one of which uses desiccated coconut, which is dried coconut meat, by removing the water content so that only about 3% left, using dried coconut, the taste and aroma of the cake will be delicious and the fragrant of the coconut will be more pronounced.

Desiccated coconut can be made easily at home, by means of the oven or roasted using a frying pan, when using an oven the temperature used is low temperature, whereas if you want to roast, the stove used is a small fire.

If you want to make cakes with desiccated coconut ingredients, use coconuts that are not mature, not too young, to get the delicious and fragrant taste and aroma of coconut.

One of the coconut cakes is coconut cheese cookies, coconut cheese cookies including cookies which make it very easy. The ingredients used are not too many. Intrigued to make it, this cake can even made by those who have no cooking experience at all, are you curious, along with the list of ingredients and the process of making the cake.

Ingredient

Margarine 150 gr
100 gr flour sugar
 Salt 1/4 ts
1 egg yolk
Grated Cheese 50 gr
Desiccated coconut to be sprinkled with 50 gr
Flour 250 gr

How to make:
1. Beat margarine mixed with flour and salt sugar evenly.
2. Add egg yolks while still stirring.
3. Enter the flour while sifting and stirring evenly, add grated cheese, stir well.
4. Take a little batter. The shape of the crescent moon or according to your wishes.
5. Roll on the coconut. Place it on a baking sheet smeared with margarine.
6. Bake for 30 minutes with a fire under a temperature of 150 degrees Celsius until done.
7. Coconut Cheese Cookies are ready to be served.

It is very easy not to make coconut cheese cookies with desiccated coconut, make sure the cake you make is not burnt and tastes good huh, good luck.

Tools Used in Making Coconut Shell Handicrafts

Tools used in making coconut shell crafts

In making handicrafts, especially by using coconut shell as the basic material, there are several tools that must be available to facilitate the manufacturing process

Coconut shell is a hard layer that wraps meat and coconut water, also covered by fiber that are sticky and hard to clean.

Coconut Bowl, one of many kind of coconut shell handicraft

If we want to focus on making handicrafts from coconut shells, the following tools will be needed
 1. Chainsaws, saws are used to cut coconut shells into the desired shape, the use of saws can still be circumvented, saws used are iron saws, and it will be better and faster in processing if you have a chainsaw.
 2. Sandpaper, used to smooth the surface of the coconut shell, sandpaper can use 2 kinds, namely coarse sandpaper and fine sandpaper, it would be better if you have a machine sandpaper, because it will facilitate the process.
 3. Drill, used to perforate the surface of the coconut shell, for handicrafts from coconut shells that use drill, usually if you want to make a key chain, make lights, etc.
 4. Grated coconut, used to remove the coconut meat so that it will separate the meat and shell.
 5. Knife, used for slicing and can also be used for prying coconut meat, of course, to separate the meat from the coconut shell.
 6. Bowl, used to collect coconut water that is removed from the coconut fruit.
 7. Glue, used to glue two or more parts during the process of making handicrafts from coconut shell
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 8. Paper, used to make designs to be attached to coconut shells that will be crafted.
 9. Pencil, used to draw designs on the surface of a coconut shell.

If the above nine tools are available, then you are ready to make handicrafts from coconut shells in whatever design and shape you want, only the main key creativity if we want to produce good and beautiful handicrafts

How to Make Desiccated Coconut

Desiccated Coconut Source : Ramesia.com

About Desiccated Coconut

Desiccated coconut is often used as a cake ingredient to add flavor and texture. Some cakes that often use dried coconut are cupcakes, pastries, cakes and macaroons.

If you only use coconut without baking, the cake will be chewy, while if roasted, it will feel crispy when eaten. In addition, roasted coconuts have a rich, aromatic flavor first.

Desiccated coconut is a material with low water content (maximum 3%) so it can be stored for a long time. The practical benefits of desiccated coconut can be added to water, then pressed to get coconut milk that is used for cooking.

Besides, this dried grated coconut is grinded until smooth into coconut flour. How to make desiccated coconut is not too complicated, and can be done easily in your kitchen.

Coconut flour is used as a material for making bread and cakes. Before use, dried grated coconut is moistened with water, then squeezed to remove the coconut milk.

Although shredded coconut has not been widely circulated in the market, it is estimated that in the future, especially in urban areas, shredded coconut is increasingly in demand by people to make some food because it is more practical than fresh coconut which must be shredded first.

Common Ways to Make Dry Grated Coconut

Ingredients: Coconut

Equipment:
Scrapper, To separate the coconut meat with shell
knife, to separate the outer layer of brown coconut meat
Grated coconut machine, to grate
Dryer, to remove the water content in grated coconut

Making process

1. Stripping Shell, try not to break the flesh of nut. To facilitate stripping, coconuts can be preheated using hot steam for 30-40 minutes.
2. Stripping the skin of the flesh of the fruit until the outside of the flesh becomes pure white without leaving the skin of the flesh.
The pulp is cut, then washed clean and after that the flesh is drained.
Pieces of fruit flesh are dipped in hot water (80 ~ 100C) for 5-8 minutes to kill microbes, kill the enzymes that cause the grated coconut to turn brown and soften the fruit flesh tissue.
3. Grated flesh using a machine to get grated like a fine ribbon, or machine to get grated granules.
4. Grated coconut is dried to reduce the water content to a maximum of 3%. one way is to roast, there are two ways, namely,

Roasted using a stove

Put some grated coconut in a large skillet. Cook over medium heat while continuing to stir until the coconut is golden brown. If the coconut you use tends to be sweet, it will turn brownish faster so it only takes less time.

Using the oven

Preheat the oven to 160 C. Spread the grated coconut on a baking sheet with a thin layer then bake it in the oven. Grated coconut will brown very quickly, only taking about 5-10 minutes. After a few minutes, stir the coconut so that the colours are evenly obtained. Remember, sweet grated coconut only takes a short time because the sugar content accelerates the roasting process.
5. Dried shredded coconut must be airtight and not contain moisture. Packaging that can be used is polyethylene plastic bags, aluminium-coated plastic bags, semi-rigid plastic boxes, glass bottles, and tin boxes. Highly recommended to be put into the package nitrogen or carbon dioxide gas so that the dried coconut that has been packaged has a longer shelf life.

Tip: If the coconut you use is not sweet and wants to make it a little sweeter, then put half a kilogram of unsweetened grated coconut in a plastic bag or container with a lid and add 2 tablespoons of refined sugar. Rattles of plastic bags and grated coconut will taste sweet.

Well, that’s how to make desiccated coconut, it’s very easy and you can try to make in your kitchen, good luck

How to Make Wind Chimes From Coconut Shell

Wind Chimes Bamboo

One form of utilization of coconut shell is to make it into a handicraft, so that it can add value, especially in terms of economics, with creativity, we can make coconut shell combined with bamboo to make a wind chimes, the combination of coconut shells with bamboo can produce wind chimes which is quite loud. In addition, these wind chimes are cheap or can make your own easily.

Tools & Materials

• Bamboo
• Coconut shell
• Electric drill
• Cutting saws
• Scissor
• Knife
• Rope
• Score
• Brush

How to Make Wind Chimes From Coconut Shell

1. Prepare a medium size bamboo.
2. Size of bamboo is approximately 15-17 cm as much as 5 bamboo only.
3. Prepare 5 more 7 cm long bamboo as an individual 'anchor' (each for each bamboo).
4. Use a saw to cut bamboo.
5. Clean the bamboo fiber using a small knife.
6. Form some parts of the bottom of the bamboo with a curve with a distance of 8 cm from the top of the bamboo. Puree bamboo with sandpaper.
7. Make a hole in the top of the bamboo to put the rope using an electric drill.
8. Then split the coconut into a half circle.
9. Then sand the surface of the outer shell of the coconut shell until smooth.
10. Coconut shell then made into a hole to place the rope.
11. Tie each bamboo with a rope and connect it to the coconut shell.
12. Insert the rope into the coconut shell hole and pull it up.
13. Do the knot to make wind chimes and lock the knots together.
14. Make the bell more beautiful with a polish.

For the manufacturing process, it is art in creativity that plays an important role, the instructions above are only guidelines if you really want to try making these wind chimes at home.

How to Make Coconut Shell Bowl

One of the necessary kitchen utensils is a bowl, a bowl can be made from ceramic, stainless, or glass.

Along with the development of an increasingly sophisticated era, many people also choose to return to nature and use a bowl of natural materials, including using a bowl of wood, or from coconut shells.

Coconut shell bowl has long been used as cooking utensils and cutlery, actually not only a bowl, coconut shell has many alternatives made as complementary items either in the kitchen or or as decoration items in your home.

Coconut shell has a uniqueness including its very hard surface, and its relatively round shape, makes it easy to be made into a bowl, the process of making a bowl from a coconut shell can be done by taking coconut shells that have already taken its flesh, this is a way to increase the added value coconut shells usually only become trash and only burned it.

To make household appliances such as a bowl that uses coconut shells, make sure that you choose an old coconut with the characteristics of a dark brown coconut shell, this will increase the service life which will last a long time.

Coconut shell can be used normally as a household appliance if it does not use chemicals such as varnishes and paints, in addition to being strong and durable, the aromas that emerge from coconut shells have their own characteristics.

A coconut shell bowl usually consists of 2 main parts, namely the bowl and the foot bowl.

How to Make a Coconut Shell Bowl

Tools and materials
2 parts of coconut shell, make sure from an old coconut shell,
1 saw, can use a handsaw, electric saw will be better.
1 coarse and fine sandpaper, to flatten the inner and outer surfaces of a coconut shell.
1 wood glue, or quick dry adhesive
coconut shell powder the results of sanding to cover the glued surface, so that it is smooth.

How to make
1. Prepare 2 parts of coconut shell for the top and bottom, the top as a bowl and the bottom as a foot bowl, adjust the circle that can be made according to taste, then cut evenly then sandpaper using coarse sandpaper when starting, and use fine sandpaper to get the surface which is sleek and shiny and smooth.
2. Glue the bowl with the foot of the bowl by using wood glue or glue that dries quickly, add the resulting powder to close the gap in the part of the glue so that the meeting and glue become strong.
3. Wait until the wood glue dries earlier, so that the bowl will look perfect, if you want to use it as tableware, don't add varnish or paint on the surface of the bowl, if you want to make it into decoration then you can decorate it as you like.
4. Done.

The coconut shell bowl has quite a lot of benefits if you don't use it as a cutlery, this coconut shell bowl can also be used to put small items in your home, such as rings, watches, or pretty brooches that you have.

Thus hopefully useful

Pancong Cake And The One That Is Similar To The Cake

Pancong cake is a traditional cake from Betawi originating from Jakarta, this cake is made from coconut milk combined with grated coconut and sugar.

Pancong cake molds that are curved to look like a half circle, many are also using this type, it may only be different in size, pancake cakes have the largest shape among cakes that are similar in shape.

The difference between pancong cakes and other cakes is found in other ingredients, but the same ingredient still uses coconut milk and grated coconut because the source of flavor comes from this ingredient.

So, what are the different ingredients and what cake names are similar to pancong cakes.

Before we discuss other cakes that are similar to pancong cakes, the following ingredients are needed in making pancong cakes

According to the page I quoted from encyclopedia.jakarta-tourism.go.id the ingredients and how to cook pancong cakes are as follows:

Ingredients

250 grams of white rice flour

250 grams of  coconut, remove the epidermis, grated

650 ml coconut milk

1 teaspoon of salt

100 ml of cooking oil for mold polish

How to make :
1. Mix rice flour, grated coconut, and salt.
2. Pour coconut milk little by little while stirring until blended. Make sure there is no lumpy flour.
3. Heat a cookie cutter on medium heat, polish with oil, just thin.
4. Pour mixture until full, cover. Let it cook. Lift.
5. Serve while hot.

Above is the material and how to make pancong cakes, of course in this cake requires molds, cake molds shaped like a half circle and width.

After we read the recipe and how to make pancong cakes, let's continue by looking at bandros cakes originating from areas that are still in Java, namely West Java. Bandros cake consists of the main ingredients of coconut milk and grated coconut, has a taste similar to pancong cakes, the following ingredients and how to make bandros cakes.

according to the atikofianti.wordpress.com page, making bandros cakes requires the following ingredients and how to make them:

Bandros Cake Recipe:

Ingredients (for 5 servings)

140 grams of rice flour
 10 grams of tapioca flour
 1/2 tablespoon salt
 250 grams of half-aged coconut, grated
 400 ml coconut milk from 1/2 coconut
 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, for topping the mold
Granulated sugar (to be sprinkled on top of the bandros)


 How to make :
1. Cook coconut milk until warm lukewarm. Lift, set aside.
2. Mix rice flour, tapioca flour and grated coconut, stir well.
3. Put coconut milk into the flour mixture, add salt. Stir well.
4. Heat the bandrosite mold, spread with a little cooking oil. Put a little grated coconut so that the cake will be easily removed.
5. Pour batter into mold until full, cover.
6. Bake with low heat, until cooked and the edge of the cookies.
7. Lift, remove from the mold. Serve bandros with sugar.

Already two recipes that have almost the same shape and taste, now let's look at the last cake.

Gandos cake is a traditional cake originating from central Java, which is made from rice flour and grated coconut. The taste is tasty, because it doesn't use sugar in the mixture, just sprinkle it on top if you like the sweet taste.

Gandos cake dough is quite unique, unique because some rice flour is cooked first, so it's like porridge, then mixed with the remaining rice flour and coconut. So, the gandos cake will have a soft taste.

Ingredients :

250 gram rice flour
Coconut milk 800 ml of 1/2 coconut
 Salt to taste
Granulated sugar to taste for sprinkling
Medium coconut, grated 250 grams long
2 Chicken eggs 2
Cooking oil for spread

How to make :
Mix 100 grams of rice flour with 400 ml of coconut milk, cook until thick. Add the remaining rice flour, coconut, salt, stir well. Add eggs and remaining coconut milk (to taste until the mixture is thick, but can still be poured into molds)
Preheat the oily cake mold, pour the mixture to 3/4 of the mold height.
Cook until cooked. Serve with sugar sprinkles. if you like it sweetly.

How To Plant Yellow Kopyor Coconut In Dry Season

Yellow Kopyor Coconut Seed

Yellow kopyor coconut is one of the types of hybrid coconut, like other hybrid coconut, yellow coconut has the characteristics of fast fruiting, short-stemmed, and a lot of fruit.

Kopyor coconut is a coconut that has a disorder or commonly referred to as mutants, this disorder occurs genetically and can be passed down to the next generation, this abnormality will make coconut meat not stick to the coconut shell, has a lower coconut water content compared to normal coconut, but flesh that is not attached to this will have a taste more savory and sweeter.

Coconut that has this disorder in the place I live is called Kopyor coconut, in other countries, such as the Philippines, coconut that has a genetic disorder is called "Macapuno" coconut tree, for basic preparations of Kopyor coconut is often also called coconut sports.

Before planting coconuts, especially kopyor coconuts, there are 2 ways you can use them when you are going to make or get seeds.

1. Seed from kopyor coconut but comes from normal coconut

This method can be done by taking old coconuts in a bunch of kopyor coconuts, coconuts that will be used as seedlings in this way are normal coconuts but have kopyor genes, because if you are going to make seeds from kopyor coconuts, you will need complicated techniques and must done in the laboratory.

2. Embryo Culture
Because meat texture in the type of kopyor coconut is not attached to the shell, the meat will not be able to be used as nutrition when the embryo grows. Embryo culture is done by taking embryos in a kopyor coconut, this method is done in a laboratory and must go through a hygienic process.

Making kopyor coconut seeds above each has advantages and disadvantages, namely:

Kopyor coconut seedlings but normal

The advantage of making kopyor coconut seeds but taken from normal kopyor coconuts is how to make them very easily, in kopyor coconuts in a bunch, there will usually be approximately 10-15 coconuts, of which the number will not be all kopyor, maybe there will only be 3 - 5 kopyor grains, the rest are normal coconut but have kopyor genes, and this normal coconut is what we can grow into kopyor coconut seeds, the disadvantage is the low percentage of kopyor coconuts, not up to 50%, if you intend to plant kopyor coconuts as effort, making seeds in this way seems less recommended.

Embryo culture

Making seedlings with embryo culture is one of the advances in agriculture, kopyor coconut embryo culture is done by taking embryos or shoots that are on kopyor coconut and grown in the media in the laboratory, the benefit to be gained from this type of seed is the percentage to become kopyor coconut all in one bunch is very large, which is 95-100%. this type of seed is very suitable to be planted if you want a business as a kopyor coconut farmer. The disadvantage is that not everyone can make seedlings by embryo culture, and also if we want to buy, the price of kopyor coconut seeds with embryo culture is very expensive.

How to grow kopyor yellow coconut

1. Seeds
If you want to plant kopyor coconuts, the first thing you have to prepare is kopyor coconut seeds, kopyor coconut seeds that will be planted are at least one year old, healthy and have bright yellow on the stem and leaf bones.

Seed Of Yellow Kopyor Coconut

2. The planting hole
The requirements for growing this type of coconut are actually the same as the process of planting ordinary coconuts, prepare a planting hole measuring 60 x 60 x 60 cm, then in the manure input holes and lots of leaves, then leave it for two weeks to eliminate the level of soil acidity.

3. Season
As is known, coconut is a plant that will grow very well in tropical climates, the tropical climate has two seasons, namely the dry season and the rainy season, when going to plant coconuts, it is best done at the beginning of the rainy season, because coconut seeds need a lot of water to grow, there is no certainty when the change of season occurs, making farmers sometimes plant at the end of the dry season.

4. Water Supply
When planting coconuts at the beginning of the rainy season, often the rain has not fallen in a long period of time, when there is no rain, then watering the seeds that have been planted must be done, because the dry soil and hot weather will make the soil also become hot, flush the coconut seeds that have been planted 2 days in the afternoon with plenty of water, try to watering the soil until it is really wet.

5. Ground cover
If planting the seedlings is done at the end of the dry season but it has not yet rained, we need to add soil cover around the coconut seedlings that we plant, this needs to be done to reduce water evaporation and so that the soil does not get hot from the sun which will make the seeds that we planted die.

6. Care
Care of newly planted seedlings is carried out to ensure that the kopyor coconut seeds that we plant live and grow normally, care includes watering at least once every 2 days in the afternoon and use a ground cover from leaves that are still wet to reduce evaporation and so that the soil around the seedlings is not hot.

This is how to plant coconut seedlings at the end of the dry season so that the seeds we plant can live and grow well, if after planting then the rain intensity is already high then you have a lighter task in caring for these seeds, thank you, hopefully useful.