A Coconut Layer Cake Recipe

[elleng]

A Sugar Rush, Not Crush

It’s unusual to be served a homey wedge-shaped slice of layer cake at an ambitious restaurant. It’s even more surprising when it’s a fluffy coconut number, as shaggy and proud as anything you’d see on a diner counter under a cake dome — but about a thousand times more delicious.

I had such a cake at Telepan Local, the chef Bill Telepan’s short-lived TriBeCa restaurant. I was expecting something deconstructed and elaborate, along the lines of the elegant quince granita parfaits and Concord grape gelées they offer at the original Telepan, on the Upper West Side.

To my delight, the pastry chef Larissa Raphael’s coconut layer cake was as classic as they come, just better than most.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/dining/a-coconut-layer-cake-recipe-from-telepan.html?hpw&rref&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

Well, I've done it! Its 3:45 a.m., just found this, and HUNGRY!!!

[2theleft]

1. omg. Coconut layer cake. Yum.

Now I will be thinking about it, too.