Cocktails with Coconut chips
Coconut chips are slices of coconut flesh, dried and often toasted, used for flavor and texture in the drink.
Substitutes for Coconut chips
Toasted desiccated coconut gives the aroma and gives up the texture, and a fresh slice is chewier and cleaner-tasting. A dusting of cocoa plays the same role over a dessert drink.
Often confused with
Desiccated coconut
Finely shredded and dried, so it scatters instead of sitting where you put it, and it floats, clumps on foam and cannot garnish a rim.
Fresh coconut flesh
Wet, dense and mild, without the toasted aroma. It keeps for days rather than weeks and means cracking a fresh nut — and as a garnish it reads soft where the chip reads crisp.
Storage
Sealed, dry and away from light. They are dry but they are also fatty, and coconut fat goes rancid: a chip that smells of paint or old nuts is finished, whatever the date says.
