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Dreaming about Mashula’s Coconut Cake - No. 204

Dreaming about Mashula’s Coconut Cake - No. 204

Bake Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding-inspired cake for Easter or just because

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EUDORA WELTY’S DELTA WEDDING, SET DEEP in the Mississippi Delta in 1923, makes me hungry for coconut cake. Or any tall, grand layer cake for that matter.

Mashula’s Coconut Cake is an almond, lemon, and coconut character woven into the novel, and I yearn to be in that kitchen where the eggs are cracked, the coconut grated, and the frosting, as Eudora Welt…

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