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Dulce de Coco
What you need:
2 cups grated coconut or flakes
1 cup water
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon coconut extract or vanilla
What you do:
1. Lightly grease a cookie sheet. In a saucepan, bring the coconut and water to a boil. Add the brown sugar and stir well.
2. Cook on low for about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the coconut extract. Turn the flame off and stir occasionally until mix begins to harden and becomes sticky.
3. Once sticky, drop by tablespoon on cookie sheet and let cool. They cool in about 10 minutes.
Source of recipe: This is a puerto rican candy recipe that has just been handed down for years.
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SO HOW'D IT GO?
This recipe works great. You just have to follow the steps.
This recipe does not work! There must be a particular ingredient missing from this recipe that makes it harden correctly. What a waste of my time trying to make this tonight and waste of ingredients. :-(