Coconut Cream Cake

Good Monday morning! Blessings to you all for this fresh new week!

I don’t usually post on Mondays anymore, but we had such an enjoyable Father’s Day weekend and I want to share a part of it with you! And of course it’s a recipe! Haha.

On Saturday we celebrated an early Father’s Day with my husband’s dad and mom. We took them out for lunch at a great Thai restaurant and then back to our house for dessert and visiting. Since my husband loves coconut, and I knew my F-I-L does too, I made this Coconut Cream Cake from Southern Living.

I like that the toasted coconut adds a little brown color to the top of the cake. It went well with a burlap table runner to make the table display a tad more masculine-looking. Don’t you think?

There is no doubt that this is a coconut cake since the list of ingredients include three variations of coconut: coconut flakes, coconut milk, and coconut extract. So for the man who likes coconut, this is the cake!

It was also very tall! I first assembled it on a cake stand. Not only would the dome not fit over it, but it looked like it would topple off that stand any minute. And since I’ve had that happen before (yikes!), I carefully slid it over onto a platter, holding my breath the entire time. I couldn’t believe it worked without a disaster.

On Sunday we joined my family for a wonderful fried chicken lunch at my parents’ home and so I took the coconut cake since we’d not even put a dent in it the day before. I also took baked beans and slaw and everyone else brought dishes as well. There was fried chicken, ham, a mashed potato bar, collards, butter beans, spoon bread, rolls, and many wonderful desserts!

I usually only post recipes that I can rave about from personal experience, but to be honest with you, I didn’t even take a bite of this cake because I don’t eat coconut. But it got the nod of approval from my coconut eaters so I feel like I can recommend this recipe. And I’m not the least bit tempted to snack on the leftovers today, so that’s probably a good thing! Ha!

And for the flower arrangement, I snipped a few things from the yard that I thought might suit a man more: orange zinnias, autumn joy, lavender, and sprigs and twigs from the shrubs. Tucked into this turquoise bucket, they weren’t so frou-frou.

I moved everything to the island for breakfast the next morning. Incredi-Boy is always tickled to get to write on the ceramic wipe board, so I let him make a Father’s Day sign. I kept breakfast very simple since we needed to get off for church and we knew there was a big lunch waiting at my mom’s.

Canned orange rolls and BACON made Joel very happy. As one of the ministers put it at the beginning of our service yesterday, “Father’s Day should include plenty of salty cured meats!!” I think the dads in our lives are so amazing, they deserve all the salty cured meats their hearts and stomachs desire!