Sorry I gotta write in Coconut Icebox Cake. (This recipe looks a bit different than my grandmother's. She mixed the shredded coconut into the frosting too, if memory serves...You could probably tinker with the finer details and produce a 'best' version depending on taste.)
I'm... confused. And horrified. There's one real ingredient in that whole recipe. I'll take a guess at what it actually is, or desires to be: a vanilla sponge cake (or egg-vanilla butter cake) with shredded coconut, coconut milk diluted with milk to for an imbibing fluid, topped with coconut-vanilla Chantilly cream. I feel like I'm way off, but I can't see another way to interpret the recipe. What is cream of coconut? And is the coconut frozen to preserve it, or am I missing something? I think I'm missing something as "icebox" is in the title...
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My anecdotal evidence disagrees with yours! EXPLAIN THAT!
I'm... confused. And horrified. There's one real ingredient in that whole recipe. I'll take a guess at what it actually is, or desires to be: a vanilla sponge cake (or egg-vanilla butter cake) with shredded coconut, coconut milk diluted with milk to for an imbibing fluid, topped with coconut-vanilla Chantilly cream. I feel like I'm way off, but I can't see another way to interpret the recipe. What is cream of coconut? And is the coconut frozen to preserve it, or am I missing something? I think I'm missing something as "icebox" is in the title...
Most decent cake mixes are 100% natural. It's just a butter cake recipe with the dry mix prepaired for you. The creme of coconut has to be coconut milk.
I can only assume that "frozen coconut" means those packages of shredded coconut you pick up in the freezer isle.
I'm... confused. And horrified. There's one real ingredient in that whole recipe. I'll take a guess at what it actually is, or desires to be: a vanilla sponge cake (or egg-vanilla butter cake) with shredded coconut, coconut milk diluted with milk to for an imbibing fluid, topped with coconut-vanilla Chantilly cream. I feel like I'm way off, but I can't see another way to interpret the recipe. What is cream of coconut? And is the coconut frozen to preserve it, or am I missing something? I think I'm missing something as "icebox" is in the title...
When my Mom gets back in town from Disney (there w/my nephew), I'll get the recipe and post it proper. I'm sure it's a 'superior build'.
The 'icebox' part comes from the chilling of the cake prior to serving. It's cold, wet, and all sorts of yummy.
Yeah, 'frozen coconut' is the shredded-in-a-bag variety.
Most decent cake mixes are 100% natural. It's just a butter cake recipe with the dry mix prepaired for you.
True that butter cakes lend themselves to mixes best (though calling for vegetable oil in a butter cake is just wrong). It's just hard to say what they did for flavoring on a "French vanilla" cake; I've only encountered that flavor in ice cream, for which they refer to French ice creams that use eggs in the base.
But the other problem I have with it is that I don't know what to build from. Should I adapt it from a pineapple upside-down cake, a pound cake, or a yellow cake recipe? And I'm not so sure about the cream of coconut being coconut milk. There is something called coconut cream (milk or water infused with fresh shredded coconut), but I don't think that's being called for...
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My anecdotal evidence disagrees with yours! EXPLAIN THAT!
I make a wonderful 4 layer Orange Angelfood Cake with an orange marmalade filling and a Grand Marnier icing. Everything is made from scratch, and I tend to make the icing somewhat heavy on the Grand Marnier. The cake ends up being about 1 foot tall so it has to be eaten quick since I don't have a cake pedistal tall enough to cover it well.
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Most decent cake mixes are 100% natural. It's just a butter cake recipe with the dry mix prepaired for you. The creme of coconut has to be coconut milk.
I can only assume that "frozen coconut" means those packages of shredded coconut you pick up in the freezer isle.
When my Mom gets back in town from Disney (there w/my nephew), I'll get the recipe and post it proper. I'm sure it's a 'superior build'.
The 'icebox' part comes from the chilling of the cake prior to serving. It's cold, wet, and all sorts of yummy.
Yeah, 'frozen coconut' is the shredded-in-a-bag variety.
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But the other problem I have with it is that I don't know what to build from. Should I adapt it from a pineapple upside-down cake, a pound cake, or a yellow cake recipe? And I'm not so sure about the cream of coconut being coconut milk. There is something called coconut cream (milk or water infused with fresh shredded coconut), but I don't think that's being called for...