Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday

Name: Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday
Total time: 1200 s
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 FOR THE COCONUT CAKE; 6 large eggs; 1 1/2 cup coconut milk; 3 tbsp sjredded sweetened coconut; 1 cup melted butter; 1 cup granulated sugar; 1 tsp 1/8 salt; 2 cup all-purpose flour; 4 tsp baking powder; 8 oz unsalted butter, at room temperature ( 2 sticks ); 4 cup confectioners sugar; 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract; 1/4 cup coconut milk; 6 cup shredded sweetened coconut; food coloring, as many or little colors as wanted. I used four colors for this cake as explained in direction step #14

fenway @Fenway

This is a light moist coconut flavored cake with a coconut butter cream frosting the colored coconut can be in any color for any event, this time I made it for Spring and Easter

fenway @Fenway

This is a light moist coconut flavored cake with a coconut butter cream frosting the colored coconut can be in any color for any event, this time I made it for Spring and Easter

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Ingredients

20 mins

COCONUT CAKE
1FOR THE COCONUT CAKE
6 largeeggs
1 1/2 cupcoconut milk
3 tbspsjredded sweetened coconut
1 cupmelted butter
1 cupgranulated sugar
1 tsp1/8 salt
2 cupall-purpose flour
4 tspbaking powder
COCONUT BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
8 ozunsalted butter, at room temperature ( 2 sticks )
4 cupconfectioners sugar
1 1/2 tspvanilla extract
1/4 cupcoconut milk
COCONUT TOPPING
6 cupshredded sweetened coconut
food coloring, as many or little colors as wanted. I used four colors for this cake as explained in direction step #14

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Steps

20 mins

1

MAKE CAKE
2

Preheat oven to 350. Grease two 9 inche cake pans.
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Add the 3 tablespoons shredded coconut to the coconut milk and set aside to soak
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Separate egg whites into a medium bowl and egg yolks into a large bowl
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Beat egg whites with an electric mixer until stiff, set aside
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To the egg yolks add the sugar,salt and melted butter, beat until smooth.
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Stir the baking powder into the flour than add this, and the coconut milk with the shredded, coconut milk to the egg yolk mixture, beat until well combined. Fold the egg whites into the egg yolk batter until combined.
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Pour batter into prepared pans and bake abput30 to 40 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean cool before frosting
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FOR COCONUT BUTTER CREAM FROSTING
10

Beat butter with an electric mixer until fluffy add sugar and coconut milk and vanilla beat until light and fluffy adding more coconut milk if dry, more sugar if wet.
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FROST COOLED CAKE WITH FROSTING
12

Cover cake with plain sweetened coconut.
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MAKE COLORED COCONUT
14

In 4 small bowls add 1 tablesppn water add drops of food color to each bowl, one drop is enough for primary colors add more to darken or change colors. Add 1 cup coconut to each bowl of color and mix well. Turn out on to plate to dry a bit. Decorate cake with colored coconut.
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I also decorated this cake with spring colored peanut M&M's

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fenway @Fenway

on April 04, 2014 18:22

“Fenway” passed away on 2/3/2021. For the last year she tried to teach her husband of 42 years how to cook like her. Although I will never be as good of a cook as her she did pass on her passion for cooking. Therefore, I will attempt to carry on her legacy and maintain/update her site. My wife was a Registered Nurse, a licensed deep water aerobics instructor, a mother to our 2 children and a fantastic cook. We grew up in New England but have been fortunate to live all over the US. I am now retired, missing her terribly, but thankful for all the years we had together and all her cooking lessons.