Classic Coconut Cake

This big, beautiful cake is the dowager empress of the royal family of coconut cakes. Layers of yellow cake are sandwiched together with sweet, fluffy white icing and finished with a blizzard of coconut shreds. The White Mountain Coconut Icing is based on Classic Boiled Icing, which is also known as divinity frosting. For an easier version, you can use Seven-Minute Frosting, which produces a similar icing wi