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Four-Day Coconut Cake
Four-Day Coconut Cake
Ingredients:
2 cups sour cream
1 cup sugar
Directions:
2 12-ounce packages frozen coconut (This can be tough to find but is usually near
the frozen fruit in small flat packages. It is easiest to find in Southern states or
Asian markets. If you find it, it makes a remarkably fresh-tasting cake. If you
can’t find the frozen coconut, use 4 lightly packed cups of a moist packaged pre-
sweetened coconut instead, and cut sugar back to ½ cup.)
Day 2
1 package yellow cake mix, baked according to directions in two greased and
floured 9-inch round cake pans
Combine sour cream, sugar, and frozen coconut in a large bowl and let sit overnight.
The next day bake the yellow cakes and cool. Carefully flip the cakes out of the pans
and cut each round into two layers, leaving four layers total. You can use a thread, tied
around the cake evenly, then pull both ends and it “cuts” the cake for you! Ice the cake
using all the coconut mixture between layers on top and all around. Wrap cake with
plastic wrap and leave in fridge for at least 3 days; 4 is even better.
• Vegetarian
Chapter 2
I Say “Tomato”; She Says, “Did I Burn It?”
A messy kitchen is a happy kitchen
and this kitchen is delirious.
unattributed
RACHEL
People sometimes ask me how I got my skill for organizing things. I tell them the truth,
“Organization was my form of teenage rebellion.”
Though we’ve all heard exasperated moms tell stories of their messy kids who
misplace library books and lose their homework, I grew up with a mother who was as
forgetful as Dory from Finding Nemo and as messy as Cookie Monster. Thankfully,
like Dory and Cookie Monster, she was also usually pretty funny and cute and loving,
which helped calm the aggravation factor somewhat. So instead of her asking me if I
remembered my lunch or backpack on the way to school, I would be the one asking her
if she remembered her purse and keys. She was forever putting her lipstick on without
a mirror, and I was forever wiping away the clown-smile edges that overlapped her
actual lips, and I would rub in the two dots of lipstick she dapped on her cheeks for a
quick rosy hue but had forgotten to blend in.
The upshot of being raised by an ADD mother was that I learned a lot about self-
sufficiency at a young age. I grew up in the country with three brothers whose clothes
seemed always covered in dirt from fishing or hunting or working, so the laundry room
was a perpetual challenge for Mom. There were always baskets full of miscellaneous
clothes, and once a family of hissing possums moved in to claim the laundry room as
Ingredients:
2 cups sour cream
1 cup sugar
Directions:
2 12-ounce packages frozen coconut (This can be tough to find but is usually near
the frozen fruit in small flat packages. It is easiest to find in Southern states or
Asian markets. If you find it, it makes a remarkably fresh-tasting cake. If you
can’t find the frozen coconut, use 4 lightly packed cups of a moist packaged pre-
sweetened coconut instead, and cut sugar back to ½ cup.)
Day 2
1 package yellow cake mix, baked according to directions in two greased and
floured 9-inch round cake pans
Combine sour cream, sugar, and frozen coconut in a large bowl and let sit overnight.
The next day bake the yellow cakes and cool. Carefully flip the cakes out of the pans
and cut each round into two layers, leaving four layers total. You can use a thread, tied
around the cake evenly, then pull both ends and it “cuts” the cake for you! Ice the cake
using all the coconut mixture between layers on top and all around. Wrap cake with
plastic wrap and leave in fridge for at least 3 days; 4 is even better.
• Vegetarian
Chapter 2
I Say “Tomato”; She Says, “Did I Burn It?”
A messy kitchen is a happy kitchen
and this kitchen is delirious.
unattributed
RACHEL
People sometimes ask me how I got my skill for organizing things. I tell them the truth,
“Organization was my form of teenage rebellion.”
Though we’ve all heard exasperated moms tell stories of their messy kids who
misplace library books and lose their homework, I grew up with a mother who was as
forgetful as Dory from Finding Nemo and as messy as Cookie Monster. Thankfully,
like Dory and Cookie Monster, she was also usually pretty funny and cute and loving,
which helped calm the aggravation factor somewhat. So instead of her asking me if I
remembered my lunch or backpack on the way to school, I would be the one asking her
if she remembered her purse and keys. She was forever putting her lipstick on without
a mirror, and I was forever wiping away the clown-smile edges that overlapped her
actual lips, and I would rub in the two dots of lipstick she dapped on her cheeks for a
quick rosy hue but had forgotten to blend in.
The upshot of being raised by an ADD mother was that I learned a lot about self-
sufficiency at a young age. I grew up in the country with three brothers whose clothes
seemed always covered in dirt from fishing or hunting or working, so the laundry room
was a perpetual challenge for Mom. There were always baskets full of miscellaneous
clothes, and once a family of hissing possums moved in to claim the laundry room as
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