Emily's Cooking (Makan2) Foray: 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!

We continue to bake from "World Class Cakes" by Roger Pizey.
This month our bakers chose from...

1. Coffee and Walnut Cake p. 113
2. Paul A. Young's Torta Gianduja p. 58
3. Caribbean Coconut Cake with Rum p. 25
4. Gingerbread p. 124

Visit our bakers to see what choice they baked up this month!

*This Inlinkz party is only for Cake Slice members.