Coconut Cake with Coconut Syrup

"For major coconut addicts."
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
15
Serves:
16
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Grease and flour 2 9-inch layer pans.
  • To make the cake: Mix the butter and sugar in an electric mixer until light, fluffy and a pale lemon color, about 3-5 minutes.
  • Add the eggs and the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  • Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl.
  • Add 1/3 of the flour mixture, beat well and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
  • Add 1/2 of the coconut milk, beat well.
  • Add another 1/3 of the flour mixture, beat well and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
  • Add the remaining 1/2 cup of coconut milk and the vanilla.
  • Beat well.
  • Add the final 1/3 of the flour mixture and beat well.
  • Add the shredded coconut and mix to combine.
  • Scrape down the sides of the bowl (that batter is always trying to escape!) and spoon the batter into the 2 prepared pans.
  • Bake until lightly golden and springy on top, about 35 minutes.
  • To make the syrup: Place the coconut milk, coconut and sugar in a small saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
  • Lower the heat to low and cook until the sugar has melted and the mixture has thickened a bit, about 4-5 minutes.
  • Cool the cakes in the pans for about 5 minutes, invert onto a rack and split each one in half with a serrated knif, so you have 4 layers.
  • Prick holes in the layers with a fork and drizzle each layer with the warm coconut syrup.
  • While the cakes are cooling, make (or open) your icing.
  • Spread the frosting on each layer.
  • Re-assemble the cake and frost the outside.
  • Sprinkle all over with the shredded coconut you saved for the garnish.

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Reviews

  1. My customer said "This is everything a coconut cake should be". Can't do better than that. Thanks!
     
  2. This was delightful! Next time I may cut down on the sugar a bit - I made it without frosting and it was still *very* sweet. However, the texture was great and the coconut flavor was very good.
     
  3. An excellent cake. We don't have round cake pans so baked it in a 13 x 9. It worked out just fine.
     
  4. This cake was deliscious and the coconut syrup really brought out the flavor of the coconut. Nice and moist too. I filled it with my warm weather cream horn filling and use that as a frosting too. It worked out very well. This is definately a keeper :)
     
  5. DELICIOUS! I filled this cake with Danish-almond filling recipe #54148 by MEAN CHEF and poured Mom's Fudge Frosting recipe #57109 by canarygirl on top. It's like a sophisticated almond joy bar! My only problem is that one layer broke when I removed it from the pan. I think it would be a good idea to let it cool at least 10 minutes before taking it out. Thankfully, I was able to patch the cake up and no one could tell it had broken! I did not cut the layers in half, and since I was using a filling and a frosting, I halved the syrup and poured it over the two hot layers which I poked with a fork. I could only find sweetened flaked coconut at the grocery store, and I assumed the recipe used UNsweetened, so I stopped at a health food store and found some unsweetened. I'm glad I did, because I think sweetened would have made the cake too sweet. My family and I thank you-we loved this cake. — posted Jul 18, 2004 *resubitting review because I forgot the stars*
     
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