Dream Cake

Danish Dream Cake is a tender vanilla cake topped with a distinctive brown sugar-coconut topping that gets caramelized in the oven—it’s the perfect cake for a coffee break.

Danish dream cake, or drømmekage, is a beloved Danish recipe featuring a wonderfully light and fluffy vanilla cake with a sweet caramelized coconut topping.

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Danish Dream Cake (Drømmekage): How to Make It - Taste of Home

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This Danish dream cake is a soft vanilla cake with an easy broiled coconut-caramel icing with a slightly crisp texture that contrasts nicely with the tender cake. For some of us, this cake, also called Lazy Daisy Cake or Lazy Day Cake, was the first cake our grandmothers taught us to make. A serrated knife helps to cut through the topping when slicing the cake.

The Dream Cake is a classic and versatile cake that delivers a light, fluffy, and moist texture with minimal effort. This vintage recipe (VRP 090) makes use of a boxed cake mix combined with Dream Whip Topping Mix, which adds an airy and creamy quality to the batter.

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On Tuesday my friend Åsne’s dog Kaos turned nine years old, which was a great excuse to bake a cake (for the humans celebrating). Yes, I’m finding lots of excuses to bake cakes these days. Summer always puts me in the mood for coconut, so I decided to make a drømmekage, or Danish dream cake, which is a light and buttery vanilla sponge cake with an incredibly flavorful caramelized coconut ...

With its crunchy-sticky caramel-coconut topping and its fudgy cocoa ripple, this cake has serious Girl Scout Samoa vibes. The recipe itself is a mash-up of two greats: whipped cream cake and Danish Dream Cake (Drømmekage). The batter, a technique that we picked up from baking legend Maida Heatter, starts with whipped cream as its base (there’s no other fat or liquid!) and bakes into a fine ...