When I was a little girl we always had fresh coconut cake for Christmas. I was telling Lindsay about it just last week, how Mother would buy a fresh coconut from the grocery store, I can see them, even now, a bushel basket heaped with fresh coconuts, sitting on the concrete floor of the produce section in the local Kroger.
Daddy would take a hammer and a nail and poke a hole in one of the ‘eyes’ and drain the liquid, then they would peel the flesh of the coconut and grate it for the cake. They didn’t have an electric mixer, and I remember them taking turns beating the batter, as their hands would tire.
It was an absolutely wonderful cake!!! I haven’t had one since I was a child, but it was so special, and they always gave me shavings of the fresh coconut to eat.
I was looking thru my Southern Living Magazine just now, and found this recipe for Coconut-Almond Cream Cake. This is what I love about the internet. I immediately Googled it, and the Southern Living recipe popped right up, along with the original picture. I’m posting the recipe on Jan Can Cook, it looks fantastic and it’s one that I want to put in the Holiday Archives section so that we won’t lose it. Magazines get thrown away, along with amazing recipes, but if I take the time to post and tag them, we’ll all have access to them whenever we want…
Here’s the quick CLICK – enjoy and if any of you make it, drop me an email and tell me how fantastic it is….
~ jan
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