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  • Serves: 10 Servings

Layer Cake with Fresh Coconut Icing

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Category: Cakes, Desserts

 Ingredients List

  • 2 1/2 c A-P soft-wheat flour
  • 1 tb Baking powder
  • 1 ts Salt
  • 1 1/2 c Sugar
  • 3/4 c Soft butter
  • 2 lg Eggs
  • 1 ts Vanilla
  • 1 c Milk

 Directions

ICING
3 Egg whites, stiffly beaten
2 c Sugar
Meat of 1 fresh coconut,
-ground or grated
1 c Coconut milk (if needed,
-add water to make 1 cup) OR
18 oz Packaged coconut plus
1/4 c Milk and
3/4 c Water

Cake: Preheat oven to 350F. Grease two 9-inch cake pans and dust with
flour. Place circles of wax paper in the bottoms of the pans and grease
and flour them. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together. In a
separate bowl, cream the sugar and butter, then add the eggs and vanilla
and beat well. Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately, starting and
ending with the dry ingredients, and beat until smooth. Pour the batter
into the pans and bake 20-25 minutes. Cool on a rack, remove from the pans,
and peel off the wax paper. Icing: Place the beaten egg whites in a
saucepan, and add sugar, coconut and coconut milk. Over medium heat bring
the mixture to a full boil, and boil 4-5 minutes. Remove from the heat, and
spread on the cake while both the cake and icing are still warm. Makes a
very moist coconut cake, serving 10-12.


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