Coconut Cake

[shoppingfiend8]

I know there have been SO many posts about cakes, but no one has said where the best coconut cake is to be found and I need one now!

Grateful in advance, Shoppingfiend

[BarmyFotheringayPhipps]

You mean like the southern-style layer cake that's white cake with a soft, moist crumb and a whipped-cream frosting that's covered in flaked coconut and which may or may not have lemon curd between the layers?

Yeah, can't get that here. Sorry. I just make my own.

[Jeanne1116]

I like the recipe on epicurious.com from the Peninsula Grill. The filling is fantastic, the cake is different from the one they serve in the restaurant I'm told. I use my own favorite white cake recipe. The filling is SO good and you don't really have to wait overnight to use it.. I like the idea of a whipped cream frosting for the outside, I usually make it like an inside out german chocolate cake by torting the layers and not using a side frosting, just slathering on more of the filling for the top.

[Pegmeister]

OMG, I don't want to say this, but I think I hate you :) I can't remember the last time I had a cake of that description. You owe us, to post a recipe on home cooking!!

[BarmyFotheringayPhipps]

Actually, I'm pretty sure that's where I got the recipe for the last one I made!

[fantundo]

If you can't get BFP to make you one, I did see a delicious-looking coconut cake for two at Fresh Pond WF tonight, seemed like a Valentine's special. Their cakes are pretty moist, which I think is a must especially for a coconut cake.

[robertlf]

I adore coconut cake. Formaggio Kitchen on Huron Ave in Cambridge has the best. I remember purchasing one to take home because they didn't sell by the slice. My wife and I ended up eating the whole thing in the car!!! It never saw our house except for the box.

[rlh]

The one at Sportello Bakery is truly amazing, but you may have to pre-order.