White Chocolate Coconut Cake

Ingredients

3/8 lb chocolate
1/2 c water
1 c butter
2 c granulated sugar
4 eggs
2 1/2 c sifted cake flour
1 1/2 ts baking powder
1/2 ts salt
1 c buttermilk
3 ts vanilla extract
1 c almonds
3 1/2 ozs
2 c whipping cream
2 tb confectioners sugar
1 c flaked coconut
9 round cake
1 1/2 cups sugar in mixer bowl until
1/2 cup sugar

Instructions

vanilla extract. Beat until soft peaks form. Fold in coconut. Put one cake layer onto platter; frost. Repeat layers. Frost top and sides of cake. Refrigerate up to 2 hours before serving. ----