Add 1 Tbs of maple syrup and a pinch of vanilla bean seeds or powder to the remaining cream not used in the biscuit recipe.

You need the water inside the coconut to blend with the coconut meat. I use a hammer to crack off the bottom of the nut and pour the water out. You can also pierce one of the eyes and drain the water out before cracking. Smell and taste the water-if it tastes sour discard the nut and try again. Use a hammer to break the coconut into pieces and then use a butter knife carefully wedged between the coconut meat and outer shell to remove the meat.

Blend the coconut meat and water on high until very fine. You can add fresh water if the mixture is too thick to blend. The water will be separated out in the final result.

Strain mixture through fine cheesecloth into a vessel and refrigerate for at least 1 hour up to 1 day, the longer the better to separate out the cream. The coconut cream will rise to the top leaving the water below.

Carefully scoop out the cream, avoiding mixing back into the water as much as possible. Alternatively, if this sounds too daunting to you, you can use canned coconut milk or cream and refrigerate the can overnight then scoop out the cream in the same manner. It will never taste as good as fresh but is much less work.

Preheat oven to 425°F with rack placed in the middle.

Ready an ungreased baking sheet.

Stir apple cider vinegar into coconut cream and let sit to thicken (vegan buttermilk!).

Whisk flours, baking powder and rapadura together in a large bowl. Cut shortening into flour mixture using your fingers, pastry cutter or two knives until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Add coconut cream mixture all at once and stir with a fork until the dough comes together in a cohesive mass.

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface, and knead 14 times (no more no less!).

Roll out dough to 1/2" thickness. Use a 2" round cutter to cut out round biscuits. Gently rework scraps and re-cut. You can also pat dough out into a square instead of rolling it and then cut into 2" squares or any shape you wish.

Transfer rounds to ungreased baking sheet just touching each other. Brush biscuits with soy milk or nut milk and sprinkle with rapadura. Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. 20 minutes is the perfect time in my oven, but every oven is different so check them at 15 minutes.

Toss cleaned and cut strawberries with maple syrup and vanilla extract- a little splash of liquor never hurt either!  

Use a fork to halve hot biscuits (best right out of the oven!), spoon lots of fresh maple-marinated berries onto bottom half of biscuit and then pour fresh maple and vanilla sweetened coconut cream over the berries.

Place the top half of biscuit on top and eat them up right away! Enjoy!