Tropical Holiday Recipes: Desserts

Here is the final installment in this series of tropical recipes for the holiday season: Desserts. This is everything other then the pies and cheesecakes and tarts covered in the first installment. Please enjoy

1)Kona Coffee Creme Brulee 

 

2) Aloha Cake 

 

3) Haupia 

 

This is my go to recipe for this this traditional Hawaiian coconut pudding, always a hit. 

4)Pumpkin Wontons with Pumpkin Coconut Caramel 

 

This recipe calls for leftover pumpkin cheesecake but is also good with pumpkin pie. 

5) Coconut Pumpkin Spice Cake 

6) Hawaiian Pineapple Stuffing 

 

This is a sweet take on a holiday stuffing. 

7) Pumpkin Coconut Bread Pudding 

 

8) Caramelized Banana Upside Down Cake 

 

9) Tropical Bread Pudding 

 

10) Coconut Rum Trifle 

You have to scroll half way down the page for this recipe but it's worth it. 

Well that's it for this series of posts, I hope you enjoyed them. Check back next week for a new post. To everyone in the US I hope you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving. Aloha from Maui. 

Tropical Holiday Recipes: Appetizers, Drinks, and Sides

On this weeks edition of Tropical Holiday Recipes I'll be giving you a collection of my favorite appetizer, drink, and side recipes. I love green beans so there are several recipes for them, also if you look back to my early posts on the blog you'll find an additional recipe for sweet potatoes fried with cinnamon and coconut milk. Now on to the recipes:

1) Hoisin Green Bean Salad 

 

This recipe calls for agave but if you don't have that on hand honey will work fine

2) Sriracha and Wasabi Deviled Eggs 

 

3) Creamy Coconut Eggnog 

 

4) Coconut Almond Green Beans 

 

This is a super quick and simple recipe with just 4 ingredients and 2 steps. 

5) Guava Lime Coolers 

 

6) Pumpkin Butter 

 

This is great on lots of things but is particularly good on the famous Kings Hawaiian Rolls. 

7) Ohana Green Beans 

 

This is a Disney recipe from their Polynesian resort and popular with kids. 

8) Pumpkin Sangria 

 

9) Pumpkin Spice Plantain Chips 

If you don't have the palm sugar the recipe calls for organic or light brown sugar is fine. 

10) Tropical Sweet Potato Bake 

 

Well there they are to inspire you. As I said if you check out this earlier entry Adventures in Island life you'll find my personal favorite sweet potato recipe where they are fried with cinnamon and coconut milk. Sweet Potatoes with a tropical twist.  Next week will be the last in the series and contain a collection of tropical dessert recipes, until then Aloha from Maui. 

Tropical Holiday Recipes: Cranberries and Stuffing

This week in my Tropical Holiday Recipes series brings what I feel are the two most important side dishes of any holiday meal. I adore cranberry sauce and stuffing ridiculously and try to find any excuse to make them year round. I have compiled 10 recipes for each to help in your tropical holiday plans, so without further ado:

CRANBERRIES

1)Mai Tai Cranberries 

 

This will keep for up to a month in the refrigerator. 

2)Lemongrass Cranberry Sauce 

 

3)Cranberry Tangerine and Crystallized Ginger Relish 

 

This one freezes great. 

4)Cranberry Mango Sauce 

 

5)Cranberry Guava Relish 

 

This is an unusual recipe from Iron Chef Bobby Flay with both sweet and savory elements.

6)Ginger Mint Cranberry Sauce with Red Wine 

 

7)Cranberry Passion Fruit Sauce 

 

If you don't have access to fresh passion fruit, frozen is fine. In a pinch you can even use passion fruit nectar though the consistency may be more fluid. 

8)Starfruit Cranberry Sauce 

 

To make this one even more tropical replace the walnuts or pecans with macadamia nuts. 

9)Cranberry Orange and Ginger Chutney 

 

10)Tropical Pineapple Cranberry Sauce 

 

Any tropical juice blend will work in this recipe. 

Now on to the next part of the blog. I know a lot of people still like to stuff their turkeys, but I'm a bit paranoid of food born illness so I always make mine separate. These recipes can be adapted either way, the choice is yours.

STUFFING

1)Cranberry Macadamia Nut Stuffing 

 

2)Hawaiian Sweet Bread and Sausage Stuffing 

 

3)Kalua Pork Stuffing 

 

This is probably the most local recipe. Check the frozen section of specialty grocery stores to find Kalua pork on the mainland. Or make it yourself in a slow cooker using this link: Kalua Pork

4)Hawaiian Portuguese Sausage Stuffing 

 

5)Chinese Rice Stuffing 

 

Rice stuffing is a great gluten free alternative for the holiday

6)Shiitake Lup Cheong Stuffing 

 

7)Hawaiian Savory Stuffing 

 

8)Pineapple Stuffing 

 

9)Tropical Stuffing 

 

10)Island Stuffing 

 

Well that's all for this week, be sure to check back next week when I feature other tropical side dishes as well as tropical holiday drinks. Until then Aloha from Maui.