I made one just this weekend and it was DH coconut supreme mix with a box of coconut cream pudding and 1 more extra egg. Made a homemade cocnut cream filling and coconut buttercream. It was delicious! I usually don't eat cake because I have to make so many. People always laugh about me not eating my cakes, but if they mixed Crisco and butter all day long they would understand.
I feel the same way I made a baby shower cake yesterday, and today they all asked me how I stay so skinny will make all the cakes. I tell them that I do not like cakes and they do not understand. I need the coconut filling that is made with real cocounts and sugar. It is a little liquidy so it spreads into the cake. I'm from Louisiana and all the older people here love that kind of cake. But, I'm only 32 so I never made the cake.
I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but the frosting is made of sugar, sour cream, and coconut mixed together. I made it only once, and it was pretty runny when I tried to spread it on the sides of my cake. Could've been because I cheated and used low fat sour cream though...that and I didn't thaw out my coconut enough maybe.
(from the Cake Mix Doctor)
"Grandma's Coconut Icebox Cake"
cake:
1 pkg white cake mix
1 1/3 cups water
2 Tbl oil
3 eggs
frosting:
2 cups granulated sugar
16 oz sour cream
1 pkg (12 oz or 3 1/2 cups) frozen unsweetened grated coconut, thawed (I found mine at Albertson's; Wal-Mart didn't have any)
Bake cake as usual using two 9 inch round pans (350 deg.F for 27-29 minutes according to the book)
While cake is baking, make the frosting: combine sugar, sour cream, and thawed coconut in a medium bowl. Let the mixture rest in the refrigerator until the sugar dissolves, 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
When cakes are cooled, slice each layer in half to make 4 layers. Use frosting to fill and frost the cake. Chill the cake, uncovered, until frosting is firm, 1 hour.
* the book says "The frosting may run off the sides, but it will thicken up as the cake chills." She also says that it tastes best after sitting in the fridge for 3 days. (We didn't wait that long!)
I will have to try this recipe again, because it didn't work for me the first time and I know it's because I did something wrong!
Well, I'm 45 and I remember coconut cakes! I remember one my mother used to buy (that nasty three letter word!) from the grocery that I thought was the bees knees! It was so light and the frosting was loaded with coconut and a cherry on top. (With 5 kids vying for that cherry you know we all doing whatever we could to convince our mother that we deserved it!) Anyway, purely for nostalgic reasons I bought one for my kids and they HATED it! I ended up throwing 3/4 of it away.
Guess they prefer home made to store bought.
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