Nan called me the other day. Who is Nan you ask? She is my 79 year-old nanna. She needed to ask me a question. Just so you know this is exactly what
all her messages say. “Hi, its
Nanna. Uh, uhm. Hello? Just have a question. Call me back. Love you. (Long
pause) Bye.” She still really hasn’t adapted to voicemail or answering machines or telephones
of any kind, for that matter. Gotta
love her though. Back to her
question of the day. She needed a
cake for one of her bible study ladies.
They like to celebrate birthdays with cake. She wanted to order a coconut cake. Panic set in . . . I have not been able
to make a good coconut cake. It is one of the few cake recipes I have yet to
master. So, I hopped on to
Pinterest for a few hours minutes and came up with a plan. I would like to credit Chocolate Therapy’s The Best Coconut Cake for the filling, assembly and inspiration. I then used my “favorite, all-time, go-to, super-secret,
very-complicated, white cake recipe.” And it won’t be a secret anymore because
I am going to share it with you.
It comes from my trusty Cake Mix Bible. I know, once again, a Not-So-Martha Good Thing-using
cake mix but it is always everyone’s favorite white cake; moist, vanilla-goodness
with a little something extra, you can’t quite put our finger on (it is almond
extract). Then, I put it all together and put a cherry on top because that’s
all this beautiful, snowy-white vision of coconut needed. Don’t you think?
