Coconut Bundt Cake
I’m still on maternity leave and I’ve asked a few of my amazing blogger friends to fill in with some guest posts. Nancy, from gotta get baked, is here again today to help me out…isn’t she amazing? You met her last week when she shared these ooey-gooey Chocolate Bar Cookie Bars and today she is here again after my heart with this lovely coconut bundt cake. THANK YOU Nancy…xoxo (PS: I had no idea you didn’t take part because of the pictures…I knew you were on a break! )
Nancy here, from gotta get baked (I know, I know, I’m here AGAIN! What was Zainab thinking allowing me to guest post twice this month?)
I totally feel off my baking game lately. It’s as if I’ve lost my mojo. It all started a few months ago, when I was attempting a layer cake for my best friend’s baby shower. It was a recipe I had made in the past with great success: a coconut layer cake with white chocolate buttercream icing. I baked the cake layers and the next day, after I had whipped up three cups of icing, I looked at the layers and knew immediately something was wrong. They looked awful – flat instead of tall and fluffy. I ripped off a piece, put it in my mouth and realized the cake was completely gummy and dense.
Ugh.
Into the compost it went. The icing went into the freezer (after I devoured a cup of it to drown my sorrows).
A lovely group of bloggers got together a few months ago to throw Zainab a virtual baby shower with the theme being one of her favourite flavours: coconut. I was so excited to join in but couldn’t decide for a long time what to make. I decided on bread pudding because, c’mon, bread pudding is delicious! I baked up a huge pan of coconut bread pudding with a streusel topping, was delighted with the taste, took about three hundred photos of it and realized as I was browsing through them that they all looked like crap. I just couldn’t bear using such hideous photos so I didn’t participate in the shower. I no longer have the right to call myself a food blogger.
I mean, what the hell is that?!
Just recently, I was baking for my guest posts for Zainab. I wanted to use coconut because she loves it and to redeem myself for that failed baby shower post. I wanted to bake a coconut bundt cake but thought it would be fabulous to add a streusel topping. Since I couldn’t use a traditional bundt pan with a streusel topping (because a streusel topping on the bottom of a cake is sheer madness), I baked my cake in a tube pan, which requires you to invert the cake when you remove it and then put it back right-side-up.
I took the cake from the oven but only let it cool for about half an hour before I attempted removing it from the pan. BIG MISTAKE, people! The cake was still so hot and fragile that it completely fell apart as I inverted it onto a cooling rack.
My heart shattered as surely as the cake did.
It tasted awesome but there’s no way I was going to present Zainab with a cracked up cake (even though I know she would have appreciated the humour of the situation!). What is going on with me?! Well, I’ve been soldiering on with baking (it’s like riding a bike, right?) and thankfully, this lovely coconut bundt cake turned out beautifully, in taste and in looks! The bundt is super moist and fluffy, with a strong coconut flavour.
I’ve learned a few important lessons here, you guys. Never turn a hot ass cake out of its pan. And have a sense of humour. Roll with it! Life isn’t perfect. Looks aren’t everything. Have a little patience and definitely a lot of perseverance.
And eat cake. Because no matter what it looks like, its what’s inside that counts!
Adapted from Food Network
Coconut Bundt Cake
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Nancy, this coconut bundt sounds fabulous! Coconut is at the tippy top of my list of favorite flavors! Sorry about the initial cake mishap, but I’m sure it still tasted wonderful!
I am so glad that you shared this coconut cake, Nancy and Zainab! I am obsessed with coconut and I am sure it tastes amazing. Do you have any left to share?
I LOVE coconut 🙂 This cake looks soooo moist and yummy!
Thanks Jennifer!
You nailed it Nancy!!! The lessons we learn from are priceless!!!
I’m not very familiar with a bundt pan so I’ll need to remember this. Great advice, as always…
Bundt pans are one of my favorite pans as it’s always an easy cake. I learned here too 🙂
ughh I HATE kitchen fails! But I’m so happy you turned it around, Nancy, and made this beautiful beautiful cake!
Awwww…sorry about that, Nance. But great turnout! I love big bundt and this coconut bundt cake is perfect for Z! Cheers to coconut!
It’s perfect!!!
Kitchen failures are the worst, but this coconut bundt looks so moist and perfectly baked 🙂
They are so annoying but when they work..this happens 🙂
This bundt cake looks moist and delicious!
It really does 🙂
Love this coconut bundt cake! It looks so fluffy! Kitchen fails are the worst, but this turned out amazing! LD
Thanks Jessica!!
Woah this cake is perfection! And thanks for the warning too, there’s nothing worse then watching all your hard work crumble in an instant. This cake looks incredible, I just adore all things coconut!
Nancy, you definitely redeemed yourself with this cake and more!! I’ve had soooo many cake baking mishaps in my kitchen. One time, I thought it would be cool to make a cake with purple cauliflower. Seriously, what was I thinking??
Anyway, this cake looks perfect, and I would love to have a slice!
Coconut is one of my favorite flavors, love the way you bake it at this cake
Ha! This post is so funny! Epic recipe fails totally suck, but it looks like you got it right. I just got a new bundt pan I’ve been dying to try, so this may be the right recipe to break it in! I’m sure that your efforts to the baby shower were appreciated!
Z and Nancy, well, now I know 🙂 you never told us!!! well, this coconut bundt cake looks amazing and you’re a rock star for baking this cake for the 3rd time!
I am a huge coconut fan, too, and find any excuse to bake up a coconut dessert, Unfortunately, my family isn’t so enamored with coconut—they are just nuts. Anyway, Nancy, your cake is gorgeous—you definitely got your mojo back! Zainab, we’re both so lucky to have Nancy as a friend—she’s the best.
Fabulous! Moist and tasty. Nice texture.
I’m glad you loved it!