Coconut Cake

379.  The month of June in our family is filled with special days:  Birthdays, Anniversaries, Father's Day.  And all of these days require CAKE!  There are moments when I dream of b-day or Wedding cake, but when every week is cake, cake, cake...you have to get creative.

This year, rather than have store-bought cake we ventured into homemade cakes of variety.  The last cake we enjoyed was a homemade Coconut Cake.  My Southern Cakes cookbook by Nancie McDermott had a wonderful recipe called "Pearl Mae Oakley's Coconut Cake".  You can find the original recipe Here.

This cake was so delicious, full-flavored, satisfying, rich and lovely.

I used my own buttercream frosting and then covered the cake in sweetened coconut.

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 We all agreed this was 1000 times better than a store-bought b-day cake!

"There's lotion for your face, for your hands, for your feet, for your body.  Why?  What would happen if you put hand lotion on your feet?  Would you feet get confused and start clapping?  Each kind has something special in it - aloe, shea butter, coconut, cocoa butter, vanilla, lemon extract.  

That's not lotion.    That's one ingredient short of a Bundt cake."

~  Ellen DeGeneres