Fresh Coconut Cake
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Yields:
-
1 cake
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 cups cake flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sweet milk
- 4 eggs, whole
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
-
FILLING
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 3⁄4 cup sweet milk
- 1⁄8 cup butter
- 1⁄4 cup coconut
-
ICING
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1⁄4 cup white corn syrup
- 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 large fresh coconut, grated
directions
- Cream butter and sugar for at least 10 minutes. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together. Alternately add milk and flour to creamed mixture. Beat in one egg at a time. Add vanilla. Pour in three greased and floured 8-inch cake pans. Bake 25 to 30 minutes at 350 degrees.
- For a moist cake, make a filling by combining sugar, milk, butter, and coconut. Heat almost to a boiling point and put mixture over each layer of cake.
- Make a divinity icing of last six ingredients. Boil sugar, water, and corn syrup until mixture spins a thread. Slowly pour boiled mixture over stiffly beaten egg whites. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla. Continue beating until spreading consistency is reached.
- Heap icing and coconut between layers and on top and sides of cake.
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