10-Minute Greek Yogurt Dessert With Creamed Coconut

The easiest most delicious creamy treat that you can make in under 10 minutes to satisfy your sweet tooth needs! Make this Greek Yogurt Dessert with Creamed Coconut in lovely martini glasses and you have yourself an impressive-looking, but easy dessert for your dinner party! 

Jump to:

• Why You Will Love This Greek Yogurt Dessert
• Note On Ingredients
• 10-Minute Method
• Recipe FAQs
• Other Recipes With Creamed Coconut
• Other Desserts With Yogurt 
• Greek Yorgurt Dessert With Creamed Coconut

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Why You Will Love This Greek Yogurt Dessert

• Only 4 ingredients are needed for this delicious dessert! Just like our Caramelised Peached with Creme Fraiche!
• Great choice when you need a quick dessert - it will only take 10 minutes!
• Our favorite dessert to serve after a big meal. It's a great option after a rich winter meal or a decadent BBQ!
• The best part is that you can use the tinned fruit you have in your cupboard or top it with fresh fruit when it is in season!
• This is a relatively healthy dessert - gluten-free, low in sugar and high in protein! Just like our Yogurt and Granola Pots with Frozen Berry Compote.
• Fancy something a little more? Add a buttery crumb at the bottom of the glass before topping it with delicious Greek yogurt with creamed coconut!

Note On Ingredients

Only 4 main ingredients are needed for this sweet treat. But choose them carefully for best results. 

• creamed coconut: from a block or a sachet (not tin), see details below. 
• Creamy Greek yogurt (see details below).
• icing sugar: also known as powdered sugar or confectioner's sugar. 
• fruit: fresh or tinned. On this occasion we used mandarin segments and tinned pineapple chunks, but you may use your favorite fruits, like fresh berries, orange segments, bananas, peaches etc to make it a perfect dessert for you. 

Creamed Coconut Block

This recipe requires creamed coconut. Don't confuse it with coconut cream or coconut milk though - they have completely different textures. Creamed coconut normally comes compressed into a block shape or small (50g) sachets. We typically find this in the international food isles in the Thai or Chinese sections. 

What Yogurt Works Best

We highly recommend using full-fat Greek yogurt (whole-milk Greek Yogurt) in this recipe and any other desserts or baking recipes. 

It gives this dessert the best creamy texture. However, not all Greek yogurt brands are the same. Choose the type of plain Greek yogurt that is very thick and creamy. Unfortunately, natural yogurt is typically not thick enough for these yogurt desserts. We have not yet found a nonfat yogurt that worked in this recipe either! 

If you are struggling to find thick yogurt, you may mix cream cheese and non-fat Greek yogurt with a handheld mixer. This combination should achieve a similar texture. 

10-Minute Method

Let's jump straight into this easy recipe!

Roughly chop 80g of creamed coconut. Normally, when you buy a block of it, it has coconut oil set on one of the sides. Don't use that side. Use the part of it that doesn't have any coconut oil or at least not much of it. Pop into a small saucepan with 50ml of water. On low heat, stir until creamed coconut dissolves and thickens slightly, then take off the heat and leave to cool. 

We use full-fat Greek yoghurt. And that's exactly what this dessert needs, a kind of Greek Yogurt that ISN'T thin and runny. Spoon your yoghurt into a mixing bowl. Then sift in icing sugar and mix well. You may also add some vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste if you wish. 

When the coconut mixture has cooled down, mix it in with the yogurt. The mixture will look creamy but won't be completely smooth because of the coconut. Spoon into four glasses. You can now place them in the fridge to chill until you're ready to serve. 

When ready, chop your fruit into small pieces (or open a couple of tins of fruit). You can use one or more different fruit, whatever you feel goes well with coconut flavour. Fresh seasonal fruit or any tinned varieties will work! We like to use, fresh kiwi, banana or mango, tinned peaches, pineapples or mandarin segments. Any tropical fruit works! Top your Coconut Pots with chopped fruit and serve immediately. 

Recipe FAQs

Other Recipes With Creamed Coconut

If you have creamed coconut left, try our Vegan Pineapple Stir Fry with Curried Coconut Sauce. You won't be disappointed! Other recipes that require creamed coconut include: 

• Pineapple & Coconut Roulade
• Delicious Sweet Corn Soup (Vegan)
• Yasai Itame with Tofu

Other Desserts With Yogurt 

Incorporating yogurt into bakes is a perfect way to make them moist and extend their shelf life. What is more, used instead of heavy cream in cheesecakes, tangy yogurt not only makes them lighter but adds another layer of flavor. Here are some of our favourite Greek yogurt dessert recipes:

•  Lithuanian Apple Cake (Apple Yogurt Cake) 
• Baked Yogurt With Mango (Bhapa Doi)
• Spelt Cake with Plums and Yoghurt
• Yogurt Bark 
• Greek Yogurt Brownies