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I finally got the front brakes on my car fixed, so to celebrate I made the White Lily’s Celebration Coconut Cake. Hooray! Okay, so it wasn’t much of a celebratory occasion, but this was a terrific cake and a nice way to use some of the 10 pounds of White Lily flour I bought a [...]
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This cake was inspired by a brand of cream of coconut I just discovered called Coco Real. Unlike the canned cream of coconut I usually buy, Coco Real comes in a 21 ounce squeeze bottle and cost less than $3.00. The convenience of being able to use small amounts plus the price reeled me in, [...]
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Today’s cute little coconut cake is the first the item I’ve tried from The Cake Cook Book — the one I bought at Bonnie Slotnick’s shop in New York. It’s by some ladies who really know how to have fun. And the great thing is it’s still for sale on Amazon with prices ranging from [...]
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Yeas ago I clipped some cupcake recipes from Chocolatier Magazine. Yesterday I was going through stuff and found this one, which was fortunate since I’d been craving coconut cupcakes all week and hadn’t settled on a recipe. I’d had my eye on Ina Garten’s, but decided to go with Chocolatier’s since it called for cake [...]
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A few months ago I bought The Complete Magnolia Bakery Cookbook: Recipes from the World-Famous Bakery and Allysa Torey’s Home Kitchen. There were so many good recipes, it took me weeks just to settle on something. That someting turned out to be the coconut cake, which is one of Todd’s favorite desserts. Like a lot of [...]
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Here’s a photo of the cake I made for today’s Teacher Appreciation. I assembled it last night, kept it in a cake holder overnight and served it today. I think the cake went over well. As usual, I read all the Epicurious reviewer comments before making the cake. Some people used coconut milk instead of [...]
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Tonight I made a really great coconut cake. The full version of the recipe is located on Recipezaar, but as usual I made modifications. First off, who has self rising flour? Well, I do. But I figured not many other people would so I went ahead and made my own by adding baking powder and [...]
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