As a bonus, the combination of coconut and browned butter made the apartment smell incredible. Honeynut Dream Cake is now a part of my yearly repertoire of fall baking, perfectly fitting the bill ...

Also called Danish dream cake (drømmekage), this vintage recipe has a tender cake topped with a “lazy” frosting of butter, brown sugar and coconut. Then the whole cake, still in its pan ...

The “dream” part, I’d guess, is the tender cake flavored with a generous dose of vanilla or cardamom. The “lazy” bit is its so-easy frosting of melted butter, brown sugar and coconut.

Beneath that dowdy exterior was a refined crumb, lighter than butter cake ... Lazy daisy cake has an overseas cousin called drømmekage, or dream cake, that’s traditional in Denmark.