Recipes with coconut, shredded (desiccated)

Nutty apricot bars with a coconut-pecan crumble crust and jammy dried apricot filling. A layered fruit bar that's part cookie, part shortcake, chilled and sliced from the pan.

Buffalo chip cookies are giant oat-and-cornflake cookies customized with raisins, peanuts, coconut, butterscotch, or chocolate chips. Yields 60 jumbo bake-sale cookies.

Three-layer no-bake bars with a cocoa-coconut-almond base, cherry buttercream filling studded with maraschino cherries, and a semi-sweet chocolate drizzle on top.

Fudgey German chocolate sandwich cookies pair two chewy chocolate cookies with a buttery coconut-pecan caramel filling. The flavors of classic German chocolate cake reimagined as a portable cookie.

Hawaiian dump cake with just four ingredients: crushed pineapple, coconut, yellow cake mix, and butter layered in a pan. No mixing required, just dump and bake.

Lots of apples and nuts make a filling rich snacking cake.

Fresh coconut cream pie layers a silky stovetop coconut custard under a cloud of golden meringue, finished with a shower of toasted coconut. An old-fashioned, made-from-scratch pie with tender custard and crisp-tipped peaks.

Light and fluffy Christmas snowball cookies. Lighter and lower fat than most Christmas cookies and faster to make (no need to refrigerate overnight).

From the McCalls Great American recipe collection, a classic American carrot cake for the microwave.

Kitchen-sink cookies loaded with rolled oats, crushed cornflakes, shredded coconut, and pecans. Crispy edges, chewy centers, dusted with powdered sugar. Similar to ranger cookies.

Pineapple coconut pie, an old-fashioned single-crust dessert with a rich custard filling of crushed pineapple, shredded coconut, butter, sugar, and eggs. One bowl, one pie pan.

These delicious bites are made with almonds, crisp rice cereal, dried apricots, and coconut, then drizzled with some cream cheese-yogurt icing. They are perfect snack packed into your kid's lunchbox.

Magic coconut custard pie that makes its own crust while baking. Easy blender dessert with vanilla custard and toasted coconut topping in 50 minutes.

From the Great American recipe's collection Gr #17. A classic American carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.