Happy Birthday to Shauna!

Ok, so I'm a few days late! Shauna's b-day was on the 27th of this month....there hasn't been a year gone by where we haven't at least tried to celebrate our birthdays together in some way. It is a little hard now that we are half a world away from each other, but the fact that we are the same age for 4 days every year must be celebrated somehow! In our younger years, we were "twins" for 4 days right down to wearing matching clothes during that time. We always had our birthdays together and had two of the same cake. I especially remember the butterfly cake year. We both feel a little bit like we are missing something at this time of year...one day we might get to share a party again.

This year I tried to make a cake for my birthday to take to work with me...it utterly failed. So badly that I couldn't bear to put it together, let alone take it to work and expect others to enjoy it! So I was feeling very discouraged about my cake disaster when I spoke to Shauna on my birthday. She gave me a recipe for this coconut cream cake and we decided that I would try to make it on her birthday and take it to work! (aren't my co-workers lucky!!) Anyway, I followed all the instructions and it still was beginning to look like I had another disaster on my hands, but I decided I would go ahead and make the whole thing and just see how it turned out. Well, it was a big hit! The recipe made so much mixture that I had enough for two cakes....one to take to work and another little one for home. This is a very different cake, but very tasty. Very very sweet and rich I found, and if you don't like coconut, don't even bother because there is coconut in every part of this cake, right down to coconut cream in the cake mix. ( I didn't say it was fat free!) Anyway, I told Shauna I would let her know how it went, so here's a picture (this is the small one):

If anyone wants the recipe, we both have it! :) Thanks, Shauna!