Cake Recipes
Fresh Coconut Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 6 large eggs (use 3 whites for filling)
- 1 cup milk
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Frosting
- 1 (16 ounce) bottle light corn syrup
- 3 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 grated FRESH coconut
Instructions
- Cake: Cream butter and sugar.
- Add eggs and beat well.
- Add milk.
- Sift together dry ingredients and add along with vanilla extract.
- Line 3 (9-inch) cake pans, grease, and dust with self-rising flour.
- Divide cake batter evenly among the prepared pans.
- Bake 20 to 30 minutes at 325 degrees F to 350 degrees F.
- Cool completely before icing. If desired, sprinkle 1 teaspoon coconut milk over each layer before icing.
- Frosting: Bring syrup to a boil. In bowl of electric mixer, beat egg whites
to soft peaks.
- Very slowly add boiling syrup to whites while continuing to beat. (Keep syrup at boiling point while adding.)
- Add vanilla extract.
- Ice cake, and sprinkle with FRESH, grated coconut.