Carrot Cake has been kind of vilified for decades because people long ago decided a perfectly good cake needed additions like pecans and pineapple, while coconut basically has no place in a recipe except in a Pina Colada recipe. Remember that people also came up with a hot dog Jello dish (google it if you don’t believe me!), so we…
We don’t keep a lot of recipes from “way back when” (I started learning to cook) because there was such a big learning curve for me. In other words, most of it was not worth remaking and I didn’t have the experience to fix problem recipes. All I had was printed or written copies as I was learning both before…