Grilled Pineapple Toasted Coconut Muffins Recipes

MAKE-AHEAD COCONUT-PINEAPPLE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl. Set aside.
• Cream sugar and butter in a second bowl with an electric mixer. Add Greek yogurt, egg, and coconut extract; beat until well combined. Add in flour mixture and mix until just combined. Fold in pineapple, coconut, and pecans. Cover and refrigerate batter for 8 to 12 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin or line with paper liners.
• Fill each liner with batter using an ice cream scoop.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes in the pan, then transfer to a wire rack. Cool completely before glazing.
• Combine brown sugar and pineapple juice for glaze in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave until sugar has melted, 20 to 25 seconds. Dip each muffin into the glaze.

PINEAPPLE COCONUT MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and extracts until smooth; stir in egg. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with sour cream just until moistened. Fold in pineapple and coconut., Fill greased or paper-line muffin cups three-fourths full. Sprinkle with almonds. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

RUM SPIKED GRILLED PINEAPPLE WITH TOASTED COCONUT

Steps:

• Combine sugar and rum in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave on high for 1-1/2 minutes or until the sugar has dissolved. Brush the rum mixture evenly over pineapple wedges.
• Heat butter in a grill pan over medium high heat. Add pineapple; grill 3 minutes on each side or until grill marks form and pineapple is thoroughly heated.
• Sprinkle with coconut.

PINEAPPLE MUFFINS WITH COCONUT AND BROWN SUGAR TOPPING

Steps:

• Grease 18 muffin cups, or line with paper liners.
• in a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, pecans and oats. Make a well in the center of the mixture.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together buttermilk, melted butter and egg.
• Pour into well in flour mixture, stir to blend just until dry ingredients are moistened, but do not overmix.
• Gently fold in pineapple and coconut.
• Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling about 2/3 full.
• For topping:.
• mix together brown sugar, flour, coconut and oats. cut in butter with a pastry cutter till coarse crumbs have formed.
• Sprinkle crumb topping over pineapple muffin batter.
• Bake muffins at 400 for about 20 minutes, or till tops are lightly browned and firm.
• transfer pans to rack to cool for about 5 minutes.
• gently turn muffins out onto rack to cool completely.

COCONUT-GRILLED PINEAPPLE

Steps:

• Cut off the top and the bottom of the pineapple.
• Stand pineapple up and cut off the skin, cutting downward in strips from top to bottom. Make sure you slice deep enough to remove the brown "eyes".
• Place pineapple on it's side and cut crosswise into 1/2 inch thick slices (rounds). You will get between 8 and 12 rounds from a pineapple, depending on it's size.
• Using a melon baller, remove the fibrous core from the center of each slice.
• Shake the coconut milk can well, then pour into a wide, shallow bowl.
• Place the sugar and cinnamon in another wides, shallow bowl. Stir to mix.
• Preheat grill to high. Brush and oil the grill grate.
• Dip each pineapple slice first into the coconut milk, then the sugar mixture, shaking off the excess between each dipping.
• Arrange the slices on the hot grates and grill until nicely browned on both sides, about 4-6 minutes per side.
• Transfer grilled fruit to a serving platter and garnish with mint leaves.
• Serve hot or cold, with or without a scoop of ice cream.