Kristen has been perfecting her coconut poke cake for a dear friend who is also a coconut lover. They think this version is the bomb! Hope you do too!

This is an easy-to-make, beautiful, rich coconut-y cake that ideally is made the day before (and kept refrigerated).
Ingredients:

1 box Betty Crocker Super Moist Vanilla cake mix (or your preferred vanilla cake mix)
3 eggs (or as mix directs)
½ cup vegetable oil (again as mix directs)
1 cup water (as mix directs)
1 bag (14 oz) Sweetened Coconut Flakes (any brand)
Coconut Extract (found in the baking aisle near the Vanilla Extract)
1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk
½ can Cream of Coconut (found either near the sweetened condensed milk or near the adult beverage mixes)
16 oz container of Cool Whip

Preparation:

Preheat oven as directed by cake mix.

DD is not one to brag about her cooking...but everyone at the office seems to gobble up her tuna melts.  Here's to future office gatherings with tuna melts for everyone!

Tuna Salad Ingredients: 
(Makes 2 sandwiches)

1 Can of Tuna (Wild Planet Albacore Wild Tuna from Costco) (drained and mashed with a fork in a medium size bowl)
2 T + finely chopped white onion (Vidalia - adjust quantity to liking)
3 T + finely chopped dill pickles (Costco – Gedney Dill Pickle Babies) (adjust quantity to liking)
2 + squirts of Kraft Zesty Italian Dressing
¼ cup Hellman's Mayo

**Blend above ingredients with a fork**

Sandwich Building Ingredients:

Sliced tomatoes (Costco – Campari or Flavor Bombs)
6 slices of cooked bacon (Costco – Kirkland Signature brand fully cooked bacon) (crisped in the microwave)
Sliced pickled jalapenos (optional…but Andrew turned me onto this…and it’s pretty amazing)
8 Cheese slices (4 per sandwich - cheddar or co-jack mostly used at work…but muenster and cheddar combo would get nice and gooey)
4 slices of Dave’s Killer Bread (21 Whole Grains and Seeds) (Works well with any bread…but this is what we typically have at the office…or Cottage bread)

Spray the outside of each slice of bread with cooking spray (if I were at home…I would probably use butter) and then flip over.

When you meet some bean counters you understand why they excel better at being nose deep in spreadsheets instead of talking to people, but not our bean counter, Chrystal! She’s an amazingly charismatic and kind-hearted people person too! Chrystal has been with us for 6 years on the Finance Team and has recently expanded her role to include Cultural Ambassador! What the heck is a Cultural Ambassador you say? Well we are making it up as we go…but we couldn’t let this happiness seeking, zen minded awesome person count beans all day! Chrystal is not only leading the Happiness Committee in finding new ways to expand the culture within our team, which is especially challenging during these remote workdays, she’s also hosting one on one happiness coaching with our folks.

Come see our new offices and learn everything there is to learn about Office 365 … (actually that would actually take us 5 weeks to show everything) …but, our presentation has been described as:

“a whirlwind, immersive, live demonstration of the coolest Office 365 solutions and applications”

Wow! That’s exciting!

We’ll have great food and drink, and we will answer as many questions as we can.