Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

So. When I shop for Pie Night–Pie Night being the night before Thanksgiving, you remember–I always make sure to get plenty of whatever ingredients I’m buying, because who wants to go BACK to the store at the last minute? Not this girl. Ever since Pie Night, then, I’ve been in the possession of an unopened, unneeded box of vanilla wafers–Walmart brand–because I didn’t end up needing the second box, and vanilla wafers aren’t really something we all just sit around and eat. (Oreos, on the other hand…) They technically expired in March or so, which eventually pushed me to google ways to use a random box of vanilla wafers, which led me to this Vanilla Wafer Cake. Why not? After all, I had all of the ingredients, and cake can be shared in a pinch. I accordingly made a Vanilla Wafer Cake when school started, because after school treats, right? I toasted the coconut, because it was easy enough to let it toast in a skillet while I crushed wafers, and I used chocolate chips instead of nuts, because I love my oldest daughter (and DON’T generally love nuts in cake). I opted to use a cheaper bundt pan because I found it first, though, and therein lay the problem.

The cake did not come out of the pan nicely.

On the other hand, I thought the cake was amazing. So sharing the cake was less of a thing, because it was pretty much a mess, but hey, I got to eat more of it myself! (A lot more, actually. Because kids at school. Not so good for my cholesterol.) If you have a box of vanilla wafers to spare, you should totally try it, because SO GOOD.

Just remember to carefully prep your best bundt pan.