always room for cake

Saturday evening, after we stuffed ourselves to the gills with ravioli, we collapsed in the living room, dozed off, and prepared ourselves for dessert! but of course! god forbid we stop when our stomach tels us to; the heart knows better.
I had visions of this:
but ha! we should know better. this is not exactly what came out of the oven. Alas, come with me as I dare to describe my first ever:
White Cake with Coconut Frosting!
First things first. the recipe called for one huge cake pan; this is not what i had pictured, nor did i have the equipment to make it as such. So i made a 2 layer cake, which is always super fun :)
alright, so cakes are in the oven, time to start the "frosting". Why the quotes?you may ask. well let me tell you.
This frosting consists of a stick of butter, sugar, and coconut flakes. RIGHT. it was to sit for 40 minutes before applied on the cake, so i t had a glimmer of hope that the frosting would miraculously turn into the light and immaculately white cream that graced the surface of the above shown cake.
not quite.
After i taste tested it and made the "OH helllLLLL no" face, i asked my dad to run to the store and pick up some heavy whipping cream so i could make some classic whipped cream frosting.
So i put the butter coconut goo thing in between the two cakes. it didn't taste bad, if you absolutely love butter. which i do...so it was fine.
then i whipped the whipped cream, put some yellow food coloring in it (obvs) and called it done!
oh hellllLLL YEA.
xo cake.