Controversial recipe that you omit coconut?

[Anonymous]

I was listening to the end of the today show on Sirius when they were playing an older episode. The host said “my wife wants me to thank you for your recipe”. The cook said “oh it’s all I ever would hear is whether or not people used or omitted coconut”.

I remember there being a recipe a long time ago that everyone would say that, but no clue who/what it was

Any ideas?!

[Anonymous]

Not sure if this is what you mean but people come to blows over whether there should be coconut in carrot cake

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is what you mean but people come to blows over whether there should be coconut in carrot cake

I love a tropical carrot cake with pineapple and coconut. But not everyone does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is what you mean but people come to blows over whether there should be coconut in carrot cake

I love a tropical carrot cake with pineapple and coconut. But not everyone does.

Is that a hummingbird cake

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is what you mean but people come to blows over whether there should be coconut in carrot cake

I love a tropical carrot cake with pineapple and coconut. But not everyone does.

Is that a hummingbird cake

I'm the Cake Lady (baking through the list of Southern Living cakes) - and many of the cakes include coconut. German Chocolate Cake, Coconut Cake (of course), Japanese fruitcake all do, but not the Hummingbird

https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/hummingbird-cake-recipe

[Anonymous]

Seven layer bars sometimes include coconut.

[Anonymous]

Hummingbird cake doesn’t have coconut though?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is what you mean but people come to blows over whether there should be coconut in carrot cake

I love a tropical carrot cake with pineapple and coconut. But not everyone does.

Is that a hummingbird cake

I'm the Cake Lady (baking through the list of Southern Living cakes) - and many of the cakes include coconut. German Chocolate Cake, Coconut Cake (of course), Japanese fruitcake all do, but not the Hummingbird

https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/hummingbird-cake-recipe

Online searches say classic hummingbird cakes do contain coconut. Just one example out of many
https://www.thatskinnychickcanbake.com/classic-hummingbird-cake-with-coconut/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is what you mean but people come to blows over whether there should be coconut in carrot cake

I love a tropical carrot cake with pineapple and coconut. But not everyone does.

Is that a hummingbird cake

I'm the Cake Lady (baking through the list of Southern Living cakes) - and many of the cakes include coconut. German Chocolate Cake, Coconut Cake (of course), Japanese fruitcake all do, but not the Hummingbird

https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/hummingbird-cake-recipe

Online searches say classic hummingbird cakes do contain coconut. Just one example out of many
https://www.thatskinnychickcanbake.com/classic-hummingbird-cake-with-coconut/

I would trust Southern Living over other sources on this, given that they are the ones who first published the recipe as far as can be documented, and it is their marquis recipe (as in, most popular they've ever published).

The recipe linked here references the Doctor Bird Cake, which as stated is also a banana cake, and does include coconut, and may in fact be what the Hummingbird Cake evolved from, but is still a cake in its own right.

[Anonymous]

Pretty much nothing should have coconut in it except a pina colada