Tuesday, March 30, 2010

TWD: Coconut Tea Cake

This week's Tuesday with Dorie assignment, Coconut Tea Cake, was selected by Carmen of Carmen Cooks. Let me say that I love coconut and I adore cake so I was in heaven. Yummm. I also had some leftover Strawberry Marmalade and some flavored whipped cream from the March 2010 Daring Bakers' assignment so I slathered it on my Coconut Tea Cake as well.

Triple Yummmm.


Here is the batter being prepared. The recipe called for Coconut Milk, which I had a hard time finding. Wally-World had sweetened coconut water and sweetened coconut cream, but no unsweetened coconut milk. I almost had to make my own (go figure, I was able to find instruction/recipe on the web), but my next-door-neighbor just happened to have a can. What luck. I traded her half a Coconut Tea Cake for a can of coconut milk.



Here is the cake about to go into the oven. The batter looked a little thin and watery, but I have faith in Dorie's recipes so I didn't worry.


I did fret about the length of cooking time. Dorie suggested 60-65 minutes, but I have a oven possessed by temperature demons so I started checking the cake at 45 minutes. At 50 minutes my cake tester came out clean so out of the oven came the cake. It was nicely brown and smelled like a coconut dream. Dorie didn't suggest a glaze for her tea cake, but in my book everything taste better with glaze/frosting/icing so I found a glaze recipe that used up the extra coconut milk. Not content with just a glaze, I encrusted the coconut cake and more shredded coconut.



Ahhh, life is good thanks to Tuesday with Dorie.

13 comments:

  1. It looks good, and great use of the DB leftovers! I was so eager that I made this cake before the tian.

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  2. Beautiful cake! I went with the Mocha-Walnut Bundt, so I can't wait to try this one next week! :)

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  3. Wow your neighbor made a great deal! It was a delicious cake. I'll make it again.

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  4. Yummy! I bet this was great with your strawberry marmalade.

    I've made coconut milk and while it's time consuming, the taste is amazing. That said, I buy it in a can.

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  5. I love the glaze on your cake. Wish I had a slice right now!

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  6. Your cake is beautiful - great idea to make a glaze! Lucky neighbor!

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  7. Looks lovely! I can't believe you couldn't find coconut milk in NO! Did you try the "Asian food" section of your store? I usually find it there if no where else in the store.

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  8. Very nice! Your neighbor got lucky with that trade. :)

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  9. Yes, my neighbor gets baking-lucky every weekend. She is this little old lady who lives by herself, so every weekend I take her some of my baking adventures.

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  10. Ooh your cake looks so good with more coconut piled on top. :) Thanks for baking with me this week, glad you were able to find the coconut milk!

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  11. yum! and love that you topped yours with coconut. i'm making mine on sunday for easter!

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  12. I agree that everything tastes better with frosting! Great looking cake!!

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