Chocolate Coconut Dream Cake

It’s that time again for another Hawaiian styled, local dessert – yum!

I had mentioned in a previous post that my family was starting to have themed dinners of local food from Hawaii and I planned on baking through favorite island desserts to match. I am happy to report that we successfully completed round number two and that I was able to bake a cake I only had vague memories of.

The Chocolate Dream Cake. I’m sure I’ve eaten it on numerous occasions while in Hawaii, but I just didn’t know it. There are just too many whipped cream topped delights from the islands to keep track of! Be it chiffon, one of my personal loves, or a dream cake, they are all incredibly tasty and I would never ever say no to a slice.

Guava Chiffon Dessert

We recently had a very small, very informal family dinner with my mother’s cousins. Since all of us spent a good chunk of our lives living in and being influenced by Hawaii, we decided to focus our meal around local flavors. I was, of course, thrilled and in charge of our dessert!

One of my most beloved tropical fruits from the island is guava. Allow me to sound like Bubba from the movie Forrest Gump for a moment. Like shrimp being the fruit of the sea, guava is the fruit of Hawaii for me (watch out, Dr. Seuss!). There’s guava juice, guava bars, guava cookies, guava bread, guava chiffon cake…uh…you get my point. Out of all the guava based desserts to choose from, I decided to go with a cake since that is one of my personal weaknesses.