Fruit Cocktail Coffee Cake : Trailer Park Cooking Show

Jolene Sugarbaker is back inside The Trailer Park Test Kitchen! This time, she shows you how to make a cake out of a Can Of Fruit Cocktail! Everyone has grown up with Fruit Cocktail, whether you were excited to see it as a dessert option is another story... But did you know you could "Hide" it inside a cake and it sure does turn it into something fancy, but still great for your budget! My Fruit Cocktail Cake has flavors of Vanilla, Coconut, Pecans and Sinful Brown Sugar! It has a great glaze that you pour over the top, this cake is really best served still warm or zapped in the Microwave! Impress your guests with this Budget, but Fancy Looking Treat! Easy Ingredients you most likely already have in your cabinet! Join Jolene Sugarbaker, Tasty Award Winner 2010 for Best Comedy Series as she whips up another fun Trailer Park Treat! Would you use regular Fruit Cocktail? Or one of the Fancier Kinds? Do you like Fruit Cocktail? Any Fruit Cocktail Stories from growing up? New Recipe Feature! Look for the special code in the dessert section, scan it with your Cell Phone Bar Code Reader, and have my recipe Zapped right to your phone! More Cooking Shows Soon! So Subscribe! Thumbs Up! Rate & Comment! Love, Jolene Sugarbaker The Trailer Park Queen www.JoleneSugarbaker.com Visit My Original Site! http See What's going on everyday! www.FaceBook.com Be My Friend! www.MySpace.com Add Me As A Friend! www.CookingWithJolene.com Visit My Blog http Visit My Store CALL ME 213-785-PINK



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Coconut Water Shaved Ice Recipes - Choco Coffee Mountain, Sweet Milk Fruit Medley and Red Bean Ice

These coconut water shaved ice recipes take this classic dessert to the next level. It's not just a treat for kids anymore, or a vacation snack that you enjoy once every few years. Shaved ice machines are easy to find on-line and inexpensive to add to your kitchen arsenal.

Kids always love shaved ice, but adding coconut water to the mix, adds a touch of sophistication, that makes it suitable for any adult occasion. Your guests will leave dazzled, thinking about how delicious, and original, your coconut water shaved ice recipe was.

Coconut water is mildly sweet, helping eliminate the need for artificial sweeteners. It's also healthy and invokes visions of a tropical paradise, setting a fun and relaxing mood. Coconut water is packed with potassium and vitamin C, in addition to having many other health benefits, that include, helping with your circulation, strengthening your immune system, clearing your skin, and detoxifying your body.

During summer, it's great for kids or at barbeques, because it's packed with electrolytes, that help rehydrate your body 15 times better than sports drinks, like Gatorade or Vitamin Water, without the calories and artificial sweeteners.

So, here are my coconut water shaved ice recipes. Enjoy!!!

Choco Coffee Mountain Shaved Ice Recipe

For this recipe, you're going to want to brew about two to three cups of coffee with coconut water. Coconut water is mildly sweet and will be undetectable in your coffee machine after a couple of uses.

Add and mix in chocolate syrup until it dissolves in the hot coffee. When it comes to room temperature, freeze this coffee in the containers for your ice shaver.

After you shave the ice, top this sweet, chocolaty coffee treat with chocolate syrup, thin sliced candied almonds, crumbled white chocolate Oreo Hershey's, thin sliced banana and a dollop of whip cream on top. While we're at it, try adding some all natural, unsalted peanut butter in there someplace.

Nobody ever thunk it, but there it is, shaved ice taken to the next level. The next two aren't quite as complicated, but nevertheless, classics that you and your kids will love!

Sweet Milk and Fruit Medley Shaved Ice Recipe

This recipe takes me back to my childhood. I remember the fruit medley cups from my lunchbox in pre-school and then in every school cafeteria from elementary school and on. LOL, fruit medley was one of the only things besides pizza and chocolate milk that I'd eat or drink from those cafeterias. Ahhhh, the memories.

Obviously, we'll need the shaved ice machine and our pre-frozen blocks of coconut water.

Once the ice is all shaved up, drizzle some sweet condensed milk over the top, and top it with canned fruit medley. And, how about some extra condensed milk for good measure?

This one's an old school classic, enjoy!!!

Red Bean and Ice - Shaved Ice Recipe

In addition to consuming lots of shaved ice while I lived in Hawaii, my childhood consisted of many trips to "J-town," as my family would call it, or Little Tokyo, in Los Angeles. From the time I was a little kid, I can remember the hole in the wall restaurant, with a little street food booth in the front, that serves red bean ice. I'm on the cusp of my 31st birthday and still go to the same place, today.

I love this recipe, and it's a cultural treat, so I though I would share it.

You're gonna want the warm red beans, that are nice and sweet, with all the juices reduced down. You can buy these beans already prepared at any Japanese market. Serve the warm red beans in a small bowl or cup and cover them with a layer of shaved ice about one inch thick and drizzle the top with sweet condensed milk.

Ahh, so simple, but so good. This one is actually pretty healthy because, not only do you have the coconut water, you have all the nutrients from the red beans as well.

Thank you for checking out my article about my favorite shaved ice recipes that I make with coconut water. Enjoy the benefits of coconut water while indulging in a tasty, refreshing dessert. Enjoy!!!