Old Fashioned Coconut Cake
April 8, 2014 - 9:02pm
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Summary
| Yield | |
|---|---|
| Prep time | 15 minutes |
| Cooking time | 35 minutes |
| Total time | 50 minutes |
Description
If you enjoy the tropical flavors of coconut and pineapple, try a coconut cake recipe for a delicious change of pace. Nothing you buy can compare to coconut cake homemade by you.
Ingredients
2 1⁄2 c
Cake Flour 2 1⁄4 t
Baking Powder 3⁄4 t
Salt 2 c
Sugar 1 c
butter (softened) 4
Eggs (separated) 1 1⁄2 t
Vanilla Extract 1 c
Milk 3⁄4 c
shredded coconut 1 1⁄2 t
lemon rindInstructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour three 9" cake pans.
- Sift together the flour,baking powder and salt into a bowl.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer,cream the butter. Gradually add the sugar to the butter and beat until consistency is light. To the butter mixture, add one egg yolk at a time, beating in between additions.
- Add 1/3 of the flour mixture at a time to the butter mixture, alternating with the milk. End by adding the flour mixture. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and the beater.
- Add the coconut and lemon rind.
- In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff, but not dry.
- Fold the egg whites into the cake batter.
- Bake the old fashioned coconut cake until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cakes.
- Cool the cakes for 10 minutes before inverting onto wire cake racks.
Notes
Coconut cream cheese icing is a natural pairing with this cake.
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