Fresh Coconut Cake With Icing

Name: Fresh Coconut Cake With Icing
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 36 min
Total time: 1 h 21 min
Yield: 1 Cake
Ingredients: 1 cup butter (she noted REAL); 2 cups sugar; 4 egg yolks; 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla; 2 2/3 cups cake flour; 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup coconut milk; 1/2 cup milk; 4 egg whites; 2 egg whites; 1 1/2 cups sugar; 6 tablespoons water, cold; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 1 pinch cream of tartar; coconut, freshly grated

Submitted by Ambervim

"Mother had entered this in Burnt Offerings (published 1982). It reminded me of her making this once when I was very young."

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Ready In:: 1hr 21mins
Ingredients:: 16
Yields:: 1 Cake

ingredients

CAKE
1 cup butter (she noted REAL)
2 cups sugar
4 egg yolks
1 ¹⁄₂ teaspoons vanilla
2 ²⁄₃ cups cake flour
1 ¹⁄₂ teaspoons baking powder
¹⁄₂ teaspoon salt
¹⁄₂ cup coconut milk
¹⁄₂ cup milk
4 egg whites
ICING
2 egg whites
1 ¹⁄₂ cups sugar
6 tablespoons water, cold
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 pinch cream of tartar
coconut, freshly grated

directions

CAKE:
Preheat oven to 350.
Cream butter and sugar. Beat egg yolks in one at a time. Add vanilla.
Sift cake flour and re-sift with baking powder and alt.
Combine milks.
Add sifted ingredients to butter mixture in 3 parts, alternately with milks.
Beat egg whites stiff. Fold mix in by hand.
Pour into three greased 9 inch cake pans.
Bake 30 minutes.
ICING:
Combine all ingredients, except vanilla and coconut in top of a double boiler. Blend well. Then, place over rapidly boiling water and beat constantly with rotary beater for 6 minutes.
Reove from fire and add vanilla.
Spread sparingly between layers and sprinkle with fresh coconut.
Secure layers with toothpicks.
Ice whole cake and garnish with coconut.