Coconut Lover’s Celebration Cake
with Marlene Sorosky-Gray
Marlene describes her Coconut Lover’s Celebration Cake as a recipe that has evolved through the years. Each time she makes it she finds a way of improving the taste or technique. For both the cake and custard filling to have pronounced coconut flavor, she’s added coconut milk and flaked coconut to them.
The dessert is made in 4 parts: cake, rum syrup, coconut custard and whipped cream frosting. Marlene likes to think of each part as a separate recipe that can be made at different times and then assembled. Made that way fools her into thinking that it is not that much work and in truth, done like that, it isn’t.
April 10, 2024*
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About Marlene
Marlene Sorosky Gray is a renowned culinary instructor, cookbook author and food writer. She has written 8 cookbooks, which have sold over one million copies . Her Entertaining on the Run won a James Beard award and her Dessert Lover’s Cookbook won an International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) award. (Winning both against Martha Stewart was an added bonus).
For many years Marlene owned her own cooking school and cookware shop, Marlene Sorosky’s Cooking Center, in Southern California. She worked extensively with Jacques Pépin in her school and assisted Julia Child in many west coast demonstrations. A good friend of James Beard, when he was in the area, he would drop by her school and charm her classes with his culinary wisdom.
Marlene has been featured in dozens of food and entertaining segments on ABC’s Good Morning America, both as the talent and a correspondent.
She has written articles for many national magazines, including Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Family Circle, Eating Well and Cooking Light. You might also recognize her byline from the many lead articles she’s written for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Marlene has a website www.cookingwclass.com where you can sign up to receive her monthly recipes and news about her upcoming classes. During COVID she began teaching Zoom classes around the country and she continues teaching classes on Zoom today.
In November 2022, Marlene moved from Foster City, in Northern CA to Sun City Palm Desert, This summer she began teaching private classes in her home in Sun City.
