Help! DH bought coconut cream not coconut milk

[Nelle]

If it's a curry, I reckon they'll be pretty interchangeable...if it was a cake or something, well you don't mess with cakes (says she who's yet to have one turn out decently, apart from a sponge in year 10 Home economics)! But in a slow cooker, I reckon it'll be fine. And yum!! Sounds tasty!

[christy]

[quote Nelle]if it was a cake or something, well you don't mess with cakes (says she who's yet to have one turn out decently, apart from a sponge in year 10 Home economics)![/quote]

I mess with cakes all the time

[Nelle]

Wow Christy...!!

On one of dh's birthdays when I was pregnant, I tried to make a mud cake, and it sunk in the middle, and I tried to fill it with icing...and then over-decorated it and it looked awful...and being pregnant, I cried for about an hour...I was inconsolable, dh ate so much of that horrible cake to try and convince me he liked it. :P

Which has nothing to do with coconut cream. Sorry.

[suse]

Yeah, I'm a cake messer-with too. I substituted coconut cream for coconut milk in a cake, just added a little milk (ETA: cows milk, that is) until the texture of the batter seemed OK - it turned out fine (it was a sticky coconut, lime and pineapple cake, so not as temperamental as a sponge).

You'll be fine - if it's a SC recipe the cream would actually be better than the milk - a slightly more concentrated flavour and thicker texture for less liquid!