Heavenly Coconut Seduction Cake

Wonderful moist cake with great coconut flavour topped with a froth of whipped cream …..surprisingly light and much less sweet than most.

The recipe for cake and topping called for a few ingredients that I had a little difficulty finding. I located the coconut cream powder for the topping in an Asian grocery store but the canned cream of coconut for the cake remained elusive. I was prepared to substitute with coconut milk and sugar when I read a description of it online as being "a sweetened syrupy product often used in substandard pina coladas”! I knew exactly where to find it then.....and there it was, nestled amongst the bottles of angostura bitters and grenadine in the beverage aisle of my regular grocery store.

Rose suggests eating this à la minute which wasn’t practical for the occasion but it was beautifully moist and delicious hours after assembly.