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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!!

A few years ago I vowed to make a cake as part of the Christmas meal to celebrate Christ's birth so every year I look for something different and I would like to share this years creation.  It is simple to make but delicious to the tastebuds!!  Enjoy!

This recipe is in the Decemebe issue of, for women FIRST magazine, it is called CRANBERRY-COCONUT DREAM  (I altered it a little)

1 box white cake mix
2 cups shredded coconut (divided)
4 drops red food coloring
2/3 cup cranberry preserves or red currant preserves
1 pkg. (16 oz.) vanilla frosting

Heat oven to 350.  Grease two 8"round cake pans.  Prepare cake mix according to package directions, adding 1/2 cup shredded coconut and red food coloring.(I did not add the food coloring)  Divide batter evenly between prepared pans.  Bake 20 min. or until done.  Let cool in pans completely.  Remove cakes from pans.

Trim tops off cakes to level; cut each cake in half forizontally to create four layers (I only used two layers and frosted each side before putting the preserves in the middle).  Place 1 layer on serving platter;  spread with 1/3 cup preserves.  Top with cake layer; spread with 2/3 cup frosting. 

Add cake layer; spread with remaining preserves.  Top with last cake layer.  Coat cake with remaining frosting; cover with 1 1/2 cups coconut.  Garnish with fresh currants, sugared cranberries, sugared rosemary and mint leaves, if desired.

I made my own cranberry preserves by using the receipe on the package.  Bring 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar to a boil, add the package of cranberries that have been washed and bring to a boil again, simmer for 10 minutes and mash.  It is delicious!!!  I also used a homeade butter creme frosting mixed with a tub of cool whip  instead or buying frosting.  I topped it with coconut and a little of the preserves and a green leaf.  So easy and very delicious!!

NEW RELEASE

YOU ARE THE ONE
Verse 1
You are the one who I’ve ever wanted

You are the one who I’ve ever needed

You are the one who I'll always run to

When my world is turned upside down

You are the one who I've always longed for

Filling the void that I feel without you

You are the one that I've been missing

The one that the world tries so hard to avoid
Chorus

And You give me joy, joy, joy unspeakable

You give me peace, peace, peace everlasting

Your love is flow, flow, flowing within me

And you fill, fill, fill me with all that I need
Verse 2

You are the waves as they come rolling in

You are the sun as it warms up my skin

You are the rain on a cloudy day

quenching the thirst of this earthen clay

You are there in the darkest of night

When the heavens above are the only light

You are there when my heart is heavy

You carry the load when it feels like too much

Chorus

Bridge

Your loves unstoppable, unbelievable, undeniable, irreplaceable
Verse 3

You are the one who I’ll always cling to

Even when storm clouds threaten my view

You are the one who is always with me

Even if it were just me and you

You hear my voice in the noise of a city

In a world that is so out of touch

You never get caught in the rush

You're never too busy, you don't ask for much

Chorus

Bridge

Ending

Your love's all I need

Words and music by Denise Edwards ©2010