My Great Grandmother's Buttermilk Lemon Coconut Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
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16
ingredients
- 354.88 ml shortening
- 591.47 ml sugar
- 4 eggs
- 236.59 ml buttermilk
- 2.46 ml baking soda, dissolved in
- 14.79 ml water
- 14.79 ml lemon extract
- 828.06 ml flour
- 2.46 ml salt
- 236.59 ml sugar
- 591.47-709.77 ml milk
- 709.77 ml grated coconut (unsweetened)
- 354.88 ml marshmallows (her recipe says "handful")
- 4.92 ml almond extract (my mom and I added this)
directions
- Preheat oven to 300. Grease and flour 3 9" cake pans. Sift together flour and salt.
- Cream shortening and sugar until fluffy.
- Beat in eggs one at a time until combined.
- Add buttermilk, soda, and flavoring.
- Add flour mixture gradually until combined. This is similar to a pound cake batter.
- Pour into cake pans at bake for 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean.
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For Icing:
- Cook sugar, milk, coconut, marshmallows over a double boiler until smooth. Note: as it is hard to find unsweeted coconut, I've used sweeted and reduced the sugar to 1/2 Cup. Fold in almond extract. Icing will be fairly runny--it's supposed to seep into the cake and run off the sides. If you want it to be thicker, add more marshmallows.
- Ice layers and top of cake while still hot. I poke holes in the layers with a toothpick so that the icing seeps down into the cake.
- Cover and refrigerate overnight. No cheating! You MUST serve it after it's been refrigerated, and serve it cold - it's best that way.
- Enjoy!
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Reviews
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When I starting making this cake It seem that it had a lot of shortening. I thought that was a mistake. The more I made the cake; I thought it is like an old wedding cake recipe. I believe that is what it is. I think it needed more marshmallows. It was a bit runny.Dan loved the cake and I made it for him. Over all it turn out a pretty good cake. Chef#220151.
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I got married to my high school sweetheart in August 06 at the ripe old age of 21, and my husband Luke and I just moved to Birmingham, AL from Auburn. He's in his second year of dental school at UAB. I have a BFA in Graphic Design, and I'm a designer at Time Inc and doing freelance design work on the side. I'm planning to go to grad school for a Master's of Fine Arts in Book Arts some time or another. I had deferred because I think the timing will be better once Luke gets out of school and perhaps I might not need to commute the hour over there.
Getting married and getting HALF of a refrigerator instead of sharing one with seven other girls really ignited a cooking fire in me!
Lately I've been trying to cut out the sugar, which is hard, because Luke likes sugary pancakes and cereal, and because I like baking things. I need to quit baking! Trying to lose the newlywed nine so I can fit into my winter clothes.