Coconut Cake Family

You would like to keep the pig

Do you know what cake we're fixing to make? We're fixing to make Jamie's favorite coconut cake

So show him your cake face. Ha, ha, ha. Let's make some cake, honey

Let's do it. Let's do it. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

Would you crack the eggs for me, please? Okay, sure. Sure. Sure

But my hands will get messy. Your hands will get, we'll wash them

All right, y'all, to start this cake, I'm going to take two sticks of butter

and two cups of sugar. Take that, buddy. You want to do it

And we're going to cream this real good. Tap it, and then you split it

Michael, would you come down here and measure me out three cups of self-rising flour

Okay. And we're going to sift it this way. How many eggs is that

Here's a cup. See, let me eat one more. Yes, that's a cup. Whoa, now

How many is this? I'll do it. You know to do it like that, right

A little bit harder. Because, see, this has to be perfect. Now take that knife

There you go. That's one? Okey-dokey. Yes, that's one. All right, so we're going to cream our sugar and our butter really, really good. Sweet

That's good. If it's a little shy, that's all right. Because the recipe calls for three cups of sifted

all-purpose flour. So when it says that, Michael, it means three cups

after it's been sifted, not before. So if it's a little shy, that's fine

All right, so just take your knife and kind of stir that around

All right, Maddie. It's been Jack! Oh my goodness my precious boy It been the Jack Hey Jack there a pig running around in here somewhere I missed you while you was at the lake You want to see the pig He over behind the table He is I think so

Is he behind the table? He's in his mama. His name is Evan, Jack

I'll get down. Pick him up. It's all right, y'all

Now you want to make sure that you get your sugar and your butter mixture away from the sides of your bowl

What do you think, boys? Yeah. We want it all creamed. So the next thing we're going to do is add four eggs. Okay

Very good. So Maddie's got our eggs cracked. So we're just going to add one at a time and beat it well after each mixture

I just want a kiss. Are you keeping the pig? You'll have to ask Pump for my land

I would like to keep the pig. You would like to keep the pig. I'm going to get ya

Henry, did you want to keep the pig? Yes. Maddie, did you want to keep the pig

Yes. All right, it's four against one, Papa. What you got to say about that

I got a new smoker. How in the world are you going to follow this recipe

We got three kids, two goats, a pig. Michael has measured us out three cups of self-rising flour

He has measured us out one cup of unsweetened coconut milk. And now we're going to add these two ingredients alternately to our cream mixture

We're going to start with flour and end with flour. And that is like a written rule, y'all, always

Flour liquid. Listen to that baby. Jack, Henry's here. Look at it Henry There Henry There Henry I can hardly think about this cake y for thinking about my grandchildren now Put all the flour in it No we just added flour

Now it's time for milk. All right, you want to add the last of the coconut milk

Add all of it? Add all of it, baby. All of it

All right, a teaspoon of vanilla. Gonna mix that good, and our cake is ready, y'all

What happened? Did your girlfriend scratch you? No. No? Did your wife scratch you

No. Okay, so the batter is ready, and it looks beautiful. Henry, taste

Maddie, you want to taste? All right, y'all, I like to make sure that my cake layers are even

So I actually measure it out. So there's a good chance that all of our cake are going to be pretty close to the same size

All right, I always make sure when I'm doing a layer cake that I shake them around in the pan

and I drop them to get the air bubbles out of your cake

Do you see any bubbles coming up? Look, look, see where all the bubbles burst in

See over here? Now watch that. There they come. All right, Jack, put them in the oven

Just don't burn yourself. Perfect. Now, we're going to bake those in a 350-degree oven, y'all, for about 25 or 30 minutes

You'll want to check, and if it's pulling away from the sides

then you want to make sure that the center is ready also

You can lightly touch the top of your cake, and if it kind of springs back, you know it's probably ready

This is the most important part of this cake, y'all. You need to take something round and about this size

A toothpick is really not big enough. We're going to put our filling in

and our filling is sour cream, sugar, milk, and a little coconut

That's cool. Isn that cool And you know what else is real cool Maddie You can find this on the Paula Deen Network How cool is that

It's awesome. We're going to put holes in each layer because we want that filling to run through there

It makes it really moist. It makes it so moist. You want to lick that spoon

Yum, Henry. Yummy. Is that good, boys, or what? All right, y'all

Normally, I would not frost this cake yet. Do you want me to help you with that, Mom

I would let it soak for three days. Do you want me to help you, Mom? And then I would come in

Do you want me to help you, Mom? Yes, help me. And then, after the three days, I would come in

and I would put this wonderful cream cheese icing. Watch how much quicker Uncle Jamie is

Oh. Watch this. We're going to get this done just in mere seconds

Oh, jeez. Okay, tell us about the icing, Paula. Oh, the icing

This is a cream cheese icing, y'all. It's basically a cream cheese icing. It's got a little bit of sweet coconut milk

You need to let it sit for three days for that filling to soak in

But since we didn't have three days, mine's falling off. And I think that it's awesome falling off

You think it's? It's like a double-decker of icing. Oh, my God

There's no telling what my sugar and blood pressure is right now. I know your sugar's high

Oh, Lord, forgive me. Hey, look. Yay! Yay! Doesn't that look great

Cake, cake, cake! Yes, it's cake. And we made a cake and it looked

Let him eat it the way he wants to. And that's it, y'all

It's Jamie's favorite coconut cake. And here's the tip of the day

Invite all your grandchildren over after you've made the cake. Here, I'll get you a plate, baby

Love you. All right, Paula, we've been beaten