Coconut Dessert
From 9 months · 4 desserts
Ingredients
What you'll need
- Cow's milk
- Coconut milk
- Coconut
- Vanilla
- Cinnamon
Method
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How to prepare each food
Cow's milk
Still not the main drink before the first birthday, but keep using it in cooking. A little milk works in mashed potato, scrambled egg, pancakes, or porridge. Choose pasteurized, full-fat milk. Hold off on plant-based drinks as a milk replacement at this stage.
Mixed into dishes as a liquid; not yet offered as a drink.
Coconut milk
Cook plain coconut milk into mild sauces, soft curries, oatmeal, or rice dishes. Keep added salt out and let it carry soft, gummable pieces of vegetable or grain.
Liquid cooked into a dish; cut any solid pieces it carries to ½ inch and soft.
Coconut
Keep coconut in soft, easy-to-manage forms. General preparation information: stir finely grated fresh coconut into yogurt, porridge or fruit purée so it softens, blend coconut milk into dishes, or offer plain coconut yogurt. Dried coconut flakes and firm chunks stay dry and hard, so leave those out for now.
Finely grated fresh coconut softened into a carrier food; spoonable yogurt or purée. Still no dry flakes or firm chunks.
Hard, dry or shredded coconut is fibrous and tough to chew, which makes it a choking concern. Keep coconut soft: blend it into purées, finely grate fresh coconut into a carrier food, or use coconut yogurt, milk or cream. Leave dry coconut flakes and firm chunks out until your child chews well.
Vanilla
Vanilla continues to be a nice way to flavor plain foods gently, from yogurt and porridge to homemade purées and soft baked goods. Keep the amount tiny. When using extract in something uncooked, prefer an alcohol-free vanilla, and keep added sugar out of whatever you are flavoring.
A tiny amount stirred into food; alcohol-free vanilla for uncooked dishes.
Cinnamon
Keep cinnamon as a small flavoring stirred into food. It works well in porridge, soft baked apple or pear, mashed sweet potato, pancakes, or yogurt. A pinch is plenty, and mixing it through a moist food keeps it from being a dry, dusty mouthful.
Still a pinch of ground cinnamon mixed into moist food, not loose powder.
Loose dry cinnamon powder can make a baby cough or gag if it is inhaled. Always mix it into a moist food and never let your baby eat it dry from a spoon.
Putting it together
A chilled coconut milk pudding thickened with cornstarch, unmolded and dusted with cinnamon.
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- AAP - Starting Solid Foods (around 6 months)
- NHS - What to feed your baby from around 6 months
- AAP - Why infant formula instead of cow's milk before 12 months
- AAP - Introducing common food allergens to your baby
- USDA FoodData Central - Cow's milk (nutrient data)
- USDA FoodData Central - Coconut milk (nutrient data)
- AAP - Choking prevention guidance for infants and toddlers
- CDC - Foods that are choking hazards for infants and toddlers
- USDA FoodData Central - Coconut (nutrient data)
- NHS - Foods and drinks to avoid (honey, salt, sugar)
General informational content, not medical advice. Always consult your pediatrician about introducing new foods, especially if your baby has any medical conditions or family history of allergies.
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