This week’s Sweet Melissa Sundays Treat was Fluffy Coconut Cake with Passion Fruit Filling. I didn’t exactly make the recipe in the book. The frosting contained two kinds of coconut (cream and flakes) and was made with cream cheese. Josh doesn’t like coconut and I am not big on cream cheese icing. I mean, I’ll have a few bites of carrot cake or red velvet cake with it, but it’s definitely not my first choice. I wasn’t really sure if this would be a recipe that would work for our household until I realized the cake was a regular white cake – no coconut – and we both like a good white cake, so I decided to make the cake, or rather cupcakes, and frost it with something else. Of course I didn’t get this great idea until the last minute.
I decided on a simple dark chocolate frosting, which was excellent with the cake. The cake was fluffy as promised and super-yummy. I would say it’s a great vehicle for almost any frosting. This recipe rated an 8.5 for Deliciousness and a 3.5 for Effort, for an EDR of 2.42. Many thanks to Karen of Karen’s Cookies, Cakes and More for selecting this cake. You can find the recipe here on her site and visit the Sweet Melissa site to see the other bakers’ cakes. My apologies to the group for not really making anything close to the recipe in the book.
Miss Irene Thompson’s Dark Chocolate Frosting from Rose’s Heavenly Cakes
3.5 ounces fine-quality unsweetened or 99% cacao chocolate, chopped
3 ounces dark chocolate, 60% to 62% cacao, chopped
1.7 ounces (3 ½ tablespoons) butter, at 65 to 75 degrees
1 cup (8 fluid ounces) corn syrup
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
In the top of a double boiler, set over hot, not simmering, water heat the chocolate and butter. (Don’t let the bottom of the container touch the water.) Stir often with a silicone spatula until almost completely melted. Remove the chocolate mixture from the heat and with the silicone spatula, stir until completely melted. Stir in the syrup until fully incorporated. Stir in the vanilla. The frosting keeps for three days at room temperature, for three weeks refrigerated, and for six months frozen. Note: the frosting will be very fluid immediately after making it. The recipe in RHC calls for the first layer to be poured over the cake. To frost cupcakes (or for the second layer of frosting on a cake), you should let the frosting cool for about half an hour or until it is a spreadable consistency.
7 comments:
Your cupcakes look adorable and delicious! I didn't realize their wasn't coconut in the cake until I was gathering the ingredients for it.
Thanks for baking along! Cupcakes are always a great choice!
The cupcakes look great, especially the frosting. I have yet to make that frosting (I missed baking the week the other HCB-ers used it).
yeah funny how melissa calls it coconut cake and there is no coconut in it!!!!!!! nice adaptation :) though i can't believe you don't like cream cheese frosting ;)
Your cupcakes are cute! I love cream cheese, coconut, and chocolate, so any version of this recipe sounds good to me.
I think you were wise to skip the cream cheese frosting - I don't know that it necessarily "went" with the other components. I loved the white cake recipe too and with chocolate frosting, it would be perfect! Your Halloween cupcakes are so cute :)
On another note - the shortbread from Miette.....I cannot stop eating it! I keep forgetting to take a picture for the round-up, and at this rate they're going to be gone before I remember. I haven't tried the speculaa yet, but my friends had a taste when we saw them recently and raved!
I have to be careful about visiting your blog, it always leaves me craving something.
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