Post #2584 by woofmutt on Sat, Jun 22, 2002 1:25 AM

I recently purchased some coconut stuffs meant for drinks and here are my highly accurate opinions...

Bar supply type cocconut creams: I've tried about four different brands of white liquid in bottles and have found all of them to be too sweet and too low in the coconut flavor, one of them being truly disgusting and one of them being really awful (see below). They often have a definite pineapple quality to the taste, as if the coconut batch was ran right after the pina colada batch. In general not a good choice.

Trader Vic's Ko Ko Kreme: Also a white liquid in a bottle but with the distinction of being really awful. It tastes the way baby puke smells. I am now stuck with the task of figuring out a recipe to use up a full bottle of this stuff.

Dried coconut milk powder: I couldn't locate Mele Koi Coconut Snow (as suggested by alnshely) but found a similar product. It really did mix up into a good coconut milk substitute. As it's a powder it's excellent for you space travelers. I can't see why I'd use this instead of a liquid coconut milk, but I found it useful for rimming a glass in a novel way. I cut the coconut milk powder 50-50 with sugar, dipped the rim of a glass in lime juice then in the coconut powder sugar mix. It left a thick, frost like edge on the glass that tasted really good and would probably thrill the guests. It might be something interesting to do for a non-creamy coconut flavored drink.

After all this experimentation I once again highly recommend Coco Lopez. The flavor is incredible, it's easy to use, and it's fairly easy to find (I've seen it in several major grocery stores but I buy it at a restaurant supply place where it's much cheaper).