ROCKY MOUNTAIN CAKE
Pies, Cakes and Desserts
Ingredients
- 1 cake
- 1 box white or yellow cake mix
- 1 cup raisins (soak in hot water 15 minutes, then drain)
- 1 1/2 cups English walnuts, chopped (reserve 12 halves)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 fresh coconut
Directions
Mix and bake cake according to box directions.
Meanwhile prepare coconut: Puncture hole in coconut and drain juice (save). Crack coconut with hammer; remove from hull with knife. Trim off brown skin and grate white meat.
Mix sugar with water in small saucepan. Cook until syrupy; remove from heat and add vanilla.
Using a fork, pierce the cake layers in several places; then spoon the coconut juice over layers.
Mix coconut, raisins and nuts.
Place one cake layer in plate. Pour syrup over; then sprinkle with coconut mixture. Add other layer(s) and repeat. Decorate with walnut halves.
Chee Chee always made one of these for Earl for Christmas.
Meanwhile prepare coconut: Puncture hole in coconut and drain juice (save). Crack coconut with hammer; remove from hull with knife. Trim off brown skin and grate white meat.
Mix sugar with water in small saucepan. Cook until syrupy; remove from heat and add vanilla.
Using a fork, pierce the cake layers in several places; then spoon the coconut juice over layers.
Mix coconut, raisins and nuts.
Place one cake layer in plate. Pour syrup over; then sprinkle with coconut mixture. Add other layer(s) and repeat. Decorate with walnut halves.
Chee Chee always made one of these for Earl for Christmas.
Source: PDF page 171
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