Coconut Mania with Wedding Cake Recipes

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We are very lucky to have a fabulous grocery store near us – Jungle Jim’s.  Actually, I don’t know that I should call it a grocery store.  It’s more of an experience.  They call it “a food lover’s paradise” and I must say that I agree.   It boasts to have over 6 acres of floor space… and, no that’s not a typo – 6 acres.  They actually offer paid tours of the place – no kidding.  It is spectacular.

 

The reason for my trip today was to find some coconut cream to try a new wedding cake recipe out for myself.  The recipe contributor mentions in her notes that “coconut cream” is not the same as “cream of coconut” and one can not be substituted for the other.  The cake got rave reviews and sounds sublime so I decided that I would need to make the trip to Jungle Jim’s to try to find coconut cream.

 

Jungle Jims has a section for every nationality of food you can think of.  Belgium, Irish, English, Thai… you get the drift.  Well, I started out thinking it might be in the Latino section of the store since that is where I often find cream of coconut at our local everyday grocery store.  I found all kinds of coconut in cans there but no coconut cream. 

 

A quick question to the lady handing out salsa samples (which were quite yummy) and we headed over to the India section.  I did find whole nutmeg which will be great for my Christmas baking and did find LOADS of cool Indian ingredients but no coconut cream.

 

The organic foods section had a variety of coconut as well.  Throughout the store we found coconut oil, coconut milk, coconut water, coconut chutney, and cream of coconut.  But we never did find coconut cream.

 

So, I decided not to make that recipe because no matter how good it turns out I could not recommend it to anyone because if Jungle Jim’s does not carry it in their 6+ acres of foodstuffs, you will probably have trouble finding it as well.

 

So, I am still on the hunt for a great coconut cream cake recipe and will keep you posted!

 

Does anyone happen to know where one can find coconut cream, by the way???