The Cake Slice bakers (TCS) ~ Caribbean Coconut Cake with rum (icing)

The Cake Slice bakers have the following recipes to bake for December 2016:

Coffee and Walnut Cake, Paul A. Young's Torta Gianduja,

Caribbean Coconut Cake with Rum, and Gingerbread

and

this is my adaptation of the

Caribbean Coconut Cake with Rum ~ pg 25

I dry pan fried the freshly grated coconut

into the dryness I desired

some of it went into the cake batter,

and used the final golden coconut gratings 

(longer frying time) for the topping

At half the recipe (which I regret doing so)

there were six cupcakes! a mini loaf and a small round cake

not too shabby for half the recipe!

we were supposed to pipe thin criss-cross lines

with the icing... but I tried and the lines were not even

so I just spread the icing, 

which has coconut cream, icing sugar and rum,

on the tops of the cakes

(for the cupcakes I dip the tops into the icing)

which help hold the coconut topping in place!

why is it that when I bake half a recipe, it turn out to be a super delish cake?

the crumb was tender and just moist enough.

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The Cake Slice is baking from

"World Class Cakes" by Roger Pizey, for our new season! 

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