When Life Gives You...

This morning I set out to make a Coconut Cake. I baked my two layers of white cake, as 

I've done many times before. They had cooled long enough for me to frost them. 

Everything was right with the universe. 

That is until I decided to remove the cake from the first pan. 

Seems as if the cake decided it wasn't ready to leave the pan. Not as a whole piece anyway.

Arrgh!! Messed up cake!!

Ok. Ok. I have another layer. It will just have to be a one layer cake. So, I invert the other layer to remove it and....arrgh #@%&** stupid cake!!! Slow breaths. In, pause, and out, pause. Now what to do?

Aha! Got it! I'll make a trifle, of sorts. Let's call it:

EASY LAYERED DESSERT

So, we already have our cake, mostly crumbled and in pieces. Time to make some pudding! Since I have white cake, I used vanilla instant pudding. The photo shows 1, but I used 2 boxes (5.1 oz size/large boxes) of the vanilla pudding mix. Made the pudding per the directions in a large bowl. 

 









 Then I brought out my 13x9 glass Pyrex dish. Let the layering begin!

Ingredients: Cake, pudding, whipped topping

Crumble the cake. Add it to the dish. This was one of the pans of cake (or one cake layer).

Add half of your pudding on top of the cake layer. Next, add the
remaining cake and layer of pudding.

Add your whipped topping, and you are done!

Yum! Time to dig in! 

 

I'm already thinking about other combinations. Pound cake and chocolate pudding. Strawberry cake, strawberries, and pudding. To make it easier, used a bakery-made cake. 

I imagine that Angel Food cake would work well too.

This made quite a bit! But, with 2 teenage boys in the house, it won't last long. 

As I get older, I'm starting to get that whole adage about not sweating the small stuff, and 

working with the hand I've been dealt. I'm getting there...