A Little Bit of All Right

I've baked many coconut cakes, but have found them all either too complicated (crack open an actual coconut, really?) or too lacking in actual coconut taste.  With this month's Cake Slice Bakers recipe, I've found a keeper.   The cake starts with a basic white cake recipe except you add coconut milk and coconut extract to get this cake off on the right foot.  You bake them into two layers which you then split in half.  May cake cutting skills need a lot of work as you can see in the pictures.  The cake was tasty all by itself, but then you soak each layer with more coconut milk.  In between and all around the cake is a glorious coconut whipped cream frosting. The frosting was easy to work with and tasty.  Toasted coconut then gets patted on the sides and sprinkled along the top.  An easy cake to make, and delicious cake to eat. Each month The Cake Slice Bakers are offered a selection of cakes from the current book we are baking through. This y