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Now decorations, they don't always shave to be sugary and kind of pretty. We can always
go with something that we like to give an added taste. So what I like to do is add just
a little bit of coconut. And if you're coconut crazy, you can put it all over the cake. But
for all intents and purposes of this recipe, we're just going to take a few kind of finger
full pieces of the coconut and spread it around. Some pre-cut pecan chips and we're just going
to add a little on the top. And this gives it a really good taste. As an added touch,
remember earlier when we went around and sliced off the edges of the cake. Now that doesn't
always has to happen if you burn the cake or it's a little brown on the sides. You can
actually do that to add more decoration to your cake. So what I've done is I have the
pieces that I've cut, and I'm just really kind of shaving them down into little crumbs.
And it's really to your liking. You can leave them really big and chunky, or you can do
them very fine. And I'm just making them look like crumbs. And it looks so pretty on your
cake, especially around the holidays. So what I usually do is, I use my fingers for this.
I'll just take a few of the crumbs in my hand, not that many because you, if this is your
first time trying it you don't want to go overboard with it. And so I just take a few,
and I just place them around the side of the cake. We're going to turn our cake plate.
And that's the other thing. When you're doing your icing on your cake plate, and your decorations,
it's so much easier just to take your cake plate and just turn. This is just an added
feature; you don't have to do this. But it always looks great.