Coconut Pound Cake Recipe

Family-run bakery CC Sweet House expands beyond Saline storefront to Whole ...

“I used to watch her make them all the time when I was a kid, and after school we would always run in to eat her cookies with a glass of cold milk,” says Burch.

As an adult, Burch would often bake for the holidays, and his wife always encouraged him to sell what he produced. When he was laid off 10 years ago from the city of Pontiac where he was assistant director for Community Human Services and Parks and Recreation, his wife convinced him that now was the time to pursue a baking business.

He took classes at Washtenaw Community College on baking and cake decorating, as well as on public health and business.

“I was the oldest student in there,” he says with a laugh. “But I wanted to learn technique. I had watched my grandma, but she never did use measuring cups. She could just look at it. I knew not to do that.”

Four years ago, his son Edgar saw the small storefront in Saline listed for lease on Craigslist. They came over to have a look and, as the saying goes, the rest is history.

CC Sweet House specializes in cookies, cupcakes, pies, cinnamon rolls, muffins, brownies and cakes, such as a popular lemon pound cake.

Cookie flavors include chocolate chip, butter cookies, oatmeal raisin, oatmeal cranberry, peanut butter, and a tropical cookie made with coconut and macadamia nuts.

Although Burch had always wanted to get his cookies into stores, the plan came together when he was approached by a member of Strong Town Ministry in Ypsilanti , where he is a deacon.

“He told me he had a friend who worked at Whole Foods, who he had told about my product,” explains Burch. “He had tasted my cookies and asked after me.”

Pleased, Burch met with Whole Foods to go through his recipes and review the ingredients.

“All of my products are all natural ingredients, but we had to make a few changes for them. We had to change our baking soda to one that had no aluminum, for example,” he says.

The business continues to be a family affair, with Burch getting help from his daughters, son, nephew and brother to research everything from marketing to packaging. Burch bought machines to do the packaging in-house, and created a label using a logo of his grandmother’s old house.

mzzterry's world: Lemon Coconut Pound Cake Recipe, from Southern ...

I made this Pound cake (actually a loaf) this afternoon. Oh my, it is so easy, and so amazing! I did not glaze it, it is awesome enough without it. In the magazine they have it all glazed & decorated with beautiful curls from a fresh coconut which is gorgeous......but I just baked up a plain ole' loaf of deliciousness that I think is worthy to stand alone! I will definately be repeating this recipe and that is why I am sharing it here, I encourage you to try this one! While I don't know why it is called "pound" cake with so few ingredients, who am "I" to argue with Southern Lliving magazine?

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