Carolyn is a modern day Donna Reed.
Four great kids, impeccably kept gorgeous home, lovely garden and her cooking and baking is legendary!
If she wasn’t so dang nice, I’d honestly have to hate her!
You know what I mean………I know you do!
Anyway, she and I were visiting one day and I told her I was bring dessert to a dinner party and she mentioned that she had just made this coconut cake and knew I would absolutely love it.
Well, for me, a recommendation from Carolyn was like getting a personal call from Ina Garten, so you better believe I immediately printed up this recipe and got busy in my kitchen baking for that dinner party…..
Now, I have to say I’m a big, huge, Gianormous coconut lover……..
For me it even rivals chocolate.
I know that’s literally blasphemy to some of you.
And at that dinner party there were some of the non-coconut lovers in attendance.
In fact, there were even some who were so bold as to say they didn’t care for coconut………….hmmmmm.
I was shocked to learn there were those sort of people…….but there are, and they were there at the dinner party.
And as you know I brought what turned out to be the most amazing, incredibly moist, dense, coconutty, crazy delicious, Coconut Cake with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting.
Ingredients
- Cake:
- 2 3/4 Cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
- 1 3/4 Cups Sugar
- 1 Cup 2Sticks Unsalted Butter
- 1 Cup Sweetened Cream of Coconut-like Coco Lopez
- 4 Large Eggs Separated
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 Teaspoon Coconut Extract
- 1 Cup Buttermilk Well Shaken
- Frosting:
- 2-8 Ounce Packages Cream Cheese at Room Temperature
- 1/2 Cup 1 Stick Unsalted Butter, at Room Temperature
- 2-3 Cups Powdered Sugar
- 1/2 Cup Sweetened Cream of Coconut-like Coco Lopez
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 Teaspoon Coconut Extract
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 2- 9 inch cake pans with non-stick baking spray.
2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon salt and whisk; set aside.
3. In a large bowl , add sugar, butter and sweetened cream of coconut. Using an electric mixer beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in egg yolks, one at a time. Add vanilla and coconut exracts. With mixer set on low, beat in dry ingredients and then buttermilk, each just until blended.
4. In another bowl, using clean and dry beaters, beat egg whites and a pinch of salt until they are stiff but not dry. Gently fold egg whites into cake batter.
5. Evenly divide batter between prepared cake pans. Bake in preheated oven for about 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow cake to cool in pans for 10-15 minutes then turn cakes out onto racks to cool completely.
6. When cakes are cool make the frosting; using an electric mixer beat cream cheese and butter together until they are just combined. Add cream of coconut, vanilla and coconut extracts and beat just until combined. Add 2 cups of powdered sugar and beat until all ingredients are just combined and smooth. Add more powdered sugar as needed to achieve desired consistency (Some readers found the frosting to be runny with only 2 cups of powdered sugar)
7. Frost cake and sprinkle coconut all over and gentle press it so it adheres to decorate.
Thanks done share recipes to : https://www.gonnawantseconds.com/2014/03/coconut-cake-with-coconut-cream-cheese-frosting/