Mocha Frappe

   It’s a cold, rainy Easter Sunday in our little Southern city here on the East Coast. Last year, we were spending Easter in Minnesota, and it was ever colder and more miserable. I think I thought then that moving closer to the ocean would solve all my problems, including weather-related ones. Well, it hasn't, though it has made most of them milder. 

    So what is one to do when you’re trapped indoors (and have been all weekend), and the afternoon needs a little sprucing up? My answer is usually the same: coffee.

Chocolate Coconut Leche Cake

   Do you know what’s delicious? Chocolate. Do you know what else is delicious? Cake. Also good: coconut. Know what isn't delicious? Diabetes. 

    With that in mind, I recently set out to create a cake that united these lovely flavors and was both decadent enough to make me stop eating it after slice one and healthy enough to....be healthy. So the Chocolate Coconut Leche Cake was born.