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I'm going to show you my son Jam's
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favorite birthday cake every time he has
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a birthday he says mama please make me
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my coconut cake and this is so easy it's
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a a basic one 1234 cake the reason it's
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called a one 1234 cake is because it
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calls for one cup of butter two cups of
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sugar three cups of flour and four eggs
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so there's your 1 2 3 4 so we're going
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start by creaming one cup of
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butter we're going to add two cups of
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sugar and we're going to add four eggs
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to this but we're going to add them one
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other and there goes the last
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one all right now we're going to start
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by adding our self-rising flour and our
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coconut milk so here we go
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and last I'm going to add one teaspoon
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vanilla and you're ready to load your
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batter into your cake pans now I like to
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use a container with a handle on
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cup one cup for your next
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one and sewing and SE until you've got
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them all filled and I'm going to take
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the spatula and just work the batter out
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to the edges I'm going to pick them up
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them and it's going to bring the air
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from the cake to the surface and you can
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bubbles coming up and it'll just give us
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a little bit more level cake these are
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ready to go in the 350°
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oven all right those are are safely in
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the oven I'm going to cook them for
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about 25 minutes but in the other
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oven I have some that should be about
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are you can see that they've started
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pulling away from the pan Which lets me
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delicious I'm going to show you how to
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make the most delectable filling for
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this cake we're going to start with
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milk all right we're ready to start
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now so we're just going to
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flip that out like that thank goodness
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nice and we're going to take our wax
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paper now and just slip
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it a little under the edge of our cake
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and this will help keep our plate clean
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now we're going to take that cake layer
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and um I like using a wooden spoon I
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like about this size I like for my holes
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to be really big so it can seat down in
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there you can use a a fork or a
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toothpick but I found the bigger the
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cake then we're going to take our
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filling and just spoon it look at it you
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can see it running down into those holes
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moistening that layer from top to
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go and on this layer we're going to
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start with our toothpicks so you'll have
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to alert your guest to be on the lookout
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for tooth fix cuz you don't want your
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cake to look like the Leaning
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Tower we're going to do the same thing
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again and another layer of
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filling all right we're ready for the
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now the secret to this cake is letting
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that cake marinate in the refrigerator
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for 3 days and hope nobody's going to
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it and you know I was
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prepared so I have one right here that's
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been in there just drinking up that
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filling you can see by this it's not a
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beauty but we're going to fix that
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because we're fixing to make a Divinity
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icing that we're going to cover this
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cake in and you won't believe the
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transformation it's going to be like
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makeup and this is so simple to make
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we're going to start with egg
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salt about a four of a teaspoon spoon of
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cream of TARTA plain old
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water so we're going to beat this for
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minute so that's been about a minute now
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at this point we're going to use the
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double boiler method and we're going to
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sit this bowl on top of rapidly boiling
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water and I'm going to set my timer
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minutes and we're going to beat
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this okay our 7even minutes is up I
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heard our timer go off and now I'm just
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going to add a little bit of vanilla to
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it and I'm just going to gently stir
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spatula and we're going to start by
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putting some up on the edge and then
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it slowly bring it down we're going to
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make sure that frosting goes all the way
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to the bottom and covers up every crumb
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cake kind of looks like marshmallow
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having all right now we're just going to
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that icing on up to the
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top there's only one thing left to do
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and that's to put the coconut on the
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top kind of just press it in against
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your cake so when you get through you'll
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have a little frosting probably to lick
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off looks like a big snowball doesn't
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it this cake is ready so now we're just
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ever so gently going to slip our wax
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paper out from underneath that layer and
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we have a clean plate what a great trick
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that is you know it's just great having
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two of everything that means I can taste
