Coconut oil seems to be all over blog-land, but it is hard to find in the UK. I was lucky to be sent some coconut oil and coco-jacks from the lovely people at coconoil.

What is all the fuss about I hear you ask. Well, here is what they say on their website;

Pure, certified Virgin Coconut Oil from Coconoil™ is widely regarded as the World’s Best Pure Virgin Coconut Oil and a delicious, nutritious, healthy alternative to traditional cooking oils.

All our oils are approved by the Vegetarian Society.

You can be sure that our Coconoil™ Coconut Oil…..

• Is Cold pressed
• Is Not bleached
• Is Not deodorised
• Is Not Refined
• Is Not hydrogenated
• Contains no GMO ingredients

Sounds good to me.

I have used the coconut oil in lots of recipes;

I melted it and used it in place of vegetable oil in this pumpkin spiced cake. Delicious.

I used a tsp in the pan to cook these pancakes, and it was amazing as each bite had a lovely hint of coconut.

I also used coconoil in place of vegetable oil to fry veggies (most recently for the Autumn chilli I made) and to make sweet potato fries, which were amazing. So it really is very versatile.

The cocojacks were brilliant too.

They are flapjacks made with oats, coconut oil and sweet freedom syrup. No butter, no sugar, no preservatives- simple.  They had a lovely hint of coconut to them, and were really filling. Yum.

You can order from their website. They also have a lot of amazing sounding recipes so check out that page too- how does coconut granola sound?

Now, if only they would branch out to make chocolate flavoured coconut oil a la Artisana (hint).