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Perfumed Coconut Cake

“This cake tastes like no other coconut cake - moist beyond belief with the coconut flavor perfuming every bite. Your house will smell divine while this is baking. I made this for my French boss who didn't believe that good baking could come from cake mixes. Voila! He's a convert. What you don't eat as a dessert tastes fabulous the morning after with coffee.”

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Reviewed: Apr. 28, 2008

Followed this recipe almost exact, except I couldn't find a cake mix without pudding already in. I put a box of pudding mix in anyways, and this cake turned out so moist! I didn't have any coconut extract, but wasn't looking for a super strong coconut cake. I also added a little sweetened flake coconut to the batter. I checked my box mix baking time, and it was only about 25 minutes, so I undercooked by a few minutes. I could have taken it out even earlier, but it was fine. I used the party cake topping recipe from this site, but substituted coconut cream pudding mix and coconut milk. YUMMY! This cake was inhaled by my coworkers!

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Reviewed: Apr. 17, 2008

I made this cake in a bundt pan, so had to cook about 50 minutes. Also used a bit more toasted coconut to completely cover the cake. Sent to work with my husband, so I never got to try it - but I heard it was a big hit!

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SunnyByrd

	Cooking Level: Expert Living In: Seattle, Washington, USA
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Reviewed: Feb. 25, 2008

I made this cake on Sunday morning and it truly does smell divine! The cake is easy to whip up although I did have to use regular coconut pudding mix as I could not find any of the instant kind. The cakes were VERY moist, so much so that I cracked one taking it out of the pan. I will know better next time. One other thing that I did was make less frosting. I used about 1/4 cup of butter, 1/4 cup coconut milk, 1/2 tsp coconut extract and 2 cups icing sugar and there was just enough frosting to cover the cake. Everyone who tries this cake, loves it! Not to mention, it is very light tasting.

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Peculiah

	Cooking Level: Expert Home Town: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Living In: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Reviewed: Oct. 1, 2007

I am a coconut fanatic and try a new coconut recipe every week. This is by far the best coconut cake I have ever made or tasted. It got rave reviews and recipe request with our small group Bible study last night. The frosting recipe definately make too much. So I used my leftovers on a second cake a week later. I bulked it up with a little more coco milk and powdered sugar. Stored it in the fridge while cake cooled. I whipped it up with the beaters again when I went to frost my cake. Everything seemed fine, but as I was frosting, it started melting and sort of turned into a big mess. Not sure what happened there, but still delicious and no complaints! I will make this recipe over and over! Oh, I couldn't find "instant" coconut cream pudding in our store, so I used the "cook and serve" variety in the recipe the same way.

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Amber


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Reviewed: Aug. 4, 2007

A friend and I made this for a Hawaiian party and it was fantastic. You can cut the icing recipe in half, though, if you don't like thick frosting.

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Reviewed: Aug. 4, 2007

don't know what i did wrong, but this cake did not impress me. i bake for a living and was not happy with recipe. followed recipe did not experience the coconut aroma mentioned and cake was not real moist as promised. icing called for 7 cups of sugar, i used 5 and that was plenty..was still very sweet. will not be making this again.

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Reviewed: Jul. 28, 2007

I made this cake for work. It is a wonderful cake with coconut flavor bursting throughout. All of my co-workers raved about it. I am going to make one for home now, but I am going to soak the left over coconut milk into the bread like my mom always did on her coconut cakes.

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Reviewed: Jul. 26, 2007

WOW. I think I died and went to heaven. After a dry run last week, I made this cake again with a couple of small changes, which I think improved it, even though it is an AWESOME cake just as it is. First, I added 1/2 cup of shredded coconut to the batter, and the biggest and the best change was that I made a cream cheese frosting, adding the coconut extract. I always slightly underbake my cakes and I suggest you do the same...

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Reviewed: Jun. 24, 2007

This has alot of flavor and is very rich. Everybody has to have some.

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