From Pinterest ~ Grandma Yearwood's Cake and No Fail Divinity

Good morning would you like a piece of cake ..

It's yummy, well actually it was yummy cause it's gone...

I saw this cake on Pinterest and then saw Trisha Yearwood's show

 with her baking it and knew I wanted to try it.

After reading the reviews on The Food Network's site 

I started not too but I'm so glad I did. 

If you like the texture of a coffee cake you will love it.

 Personally I think this cake could be changed 

up to be any flavor you wanted.

I know what you are thinking .. It's drowning in glaze ..lol 

and you are right my niece Shelby was here Sunday

 She glazed it by starting with filling up the center, 

then she filled up the edge..lol 
I did not have any coconut so officially this isn't a coconut cake

 and I used walnuts instead of the pecans 

which is what I meant by changing it up.. 

You can see on the top of the cake excess flour this is because the reviews

 said it was hard to get out of the pan so I over buttered and floured 

won't do that next time it would have been fine.
Here's the recipe

 Grandma Yearwood's Coconut Vanilla Wafer Cake with lemon glaze

one more thing this recipe shows a pack of coconut

 for the cake and another pack for the glaze

 but during the show Trisha only uses one pack of Coconut

 she puts half of the pack of coconut in the cake

 and the other half in the glaze. Which is what I will try next time.

This Never Fail Divinity by Deep South Dish  is another recipe I saw on Pinterest before Christmas and had planned on trying but ran out of time so I made it after the first. 

I'm warning you this is a very dangerous recipe... 

It's been a long time since I have made or even had a piece of divinity

 it used to be something we made every year at 

Christmas time as kids with daddy

 I had my doubts but went ahead with it. 

I had left over chopped pecans from my Christmas baking 

so I throw them in the mix instead of doing the single pecan half on top.. 

I'm going to make a huge confession here... 

Girlfriends that are reading this you must never ever bring this up 

I do not want to hear how bad this was .... 

Cause I know how bad it was... but baby it was so, so, good...
I ATE EVERY PIECE RIGHT BY MYSELF.. 

Not one soul even knew it was made or in this house...

This stuff was not what I remember as 

traditional divinity from my childhood 

but it brought back so many memories

 of traveling home to my grandmothers

 from where ever daddy would be stationed.. 

Do you remember Stuckey's 

it was a filling station / pecan stand / souvenir shop 

and their pecan confections were what I would dream

 of every time I knew we were heading south. 

I would beg daddy to stop and I knew where every Stuckey's was from

Scott Air Force Base near Belleville, Illinois to Jacksonville Florida

 and this was before there was interstate folks...

Thinking back now he would have stopped without the begging 

because he loved them too. 

I did not know it but Stuckey's still makes

 these goodies and you can order them on line 

but if you don't want to order them then give this recipe a try

 to me it tasted just like what I remember..

 like pure heaven or maybe I was on such a sugar high

 that my taste buds were clouded..lol 

I will be making this again but not anytime soon

 and I will make sure I get most of it

 out of this house as quickly as possible

 because once I started eating it I could not stop myself...

Now go eat something sweet and have a Sugarhigh kinda day....

hugs ya'll , Cherry