Coconut cake. Quick, run to the medicine chest and take an extra cholesterol pill before you even read this.
This is one of the best cakes I’ve ever eaten, coconut or not. King Arthur Flour’s recent email brought this recipe and I, for no reason I can think of, decided to make it. I like coconut, sure, but it’s not like I was dying for it. It was absolutely worth the trouble (and all those calories). Everyone who ate it loved it, including the coconut averse. (They scraped off the frosting and just ate the cake part). How can you not love all that butter? Julia Child would be proud.
It was also the maiden voyage of my layer cake slicer which has been sitting unused since my husband sent this ingenious contraption to me. I only used it to slice the dome off the layers so they were flatter—and immediately ate those—and it worked like a charm.
I rushed it out to my car as soon as I had the crumb coat on.
How many calories did you say???
500 per bite. But jeez, it sounds fabulous.
Mmmmmbutter!