Haupia Cake
"I made this cake for our Hawaiian Luau, and several times since then! It's a pretty white cake layered with haupia filling, a Hawaiian coconut pudding. If you like coconut, this cake is really nice. Not too sweet. It's a little work, but well worth it in the end. If you don't want to do the layering, just make it in a 9x13 pan and only make a half batch of the haupia filling. Please note that preparation/cooking times are approximate and don't include chilling times."
photo by chaneecat
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Yields:
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1 cake
ingredients
- 1 (18 ounce) box white cake mix
- 1 cup coconut milk, divided
- 2⁄3 cup water
- 2 egg whites
- 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- shredded coconut (amount needed to sprinkle over entire cake)
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Haupia Filling
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 cup water
- 4 cups coconut milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
directions
- MAKE CAKE & WHIPPED CREAM FROSTING: Preheat oven according to directions on cake mix. Grease and flour two 8 or 9-inch round cake pans.
- Prepare the cake according to the package directions, using 2/3 cup of the coconut milk, water, and egg whites.
- When cakes are finished baking, cool and cut each cake horizontally into 2 layers. If your top layers are mound-shaped, cut them so they are flat. (If your layers aren't flat, your filling/frosting will seep off the cake and you'll have a mess.)
- Soften gelatin in remaining 1/3 cup of coconut milk. Dissolve over hot water. Cool completely.
- In a bowl, whip the heavy cream. Fold the gelatin mixture, sugar, and extract into the whipped cream. Chill frosting until it is of spreading consistency.
- MAKE HAUPIA FILLING: In a small bowl, mix together the sugar, salt, cornstarch and water. Set aside.
- In a saucepan, heat the coconut milk. When hot, add the sugar mixture. Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and cool.
- Chill the filling until it is of spreading consistency.
- ASSEMBLE THE CAKE: Spread the Haupia Filling between each cake layer (spread it on pretty thickly, about 1/2" thick or so). You'll have the following layers: cake, filling, cake, filling, cake, filling, cake.
- Refrigerate assembled cake until set.
- Frost entire cake with whipped cream mixture. Sprinkle coconut all over the cake sides and top.
- Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.
- NOTE: Cooking times are approximate and do not include chilling times.
Questions & Replies
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This is so confusing, can someone help break everything down please? On the box cake, am I substituting the 1/2 cup oil for 2/3 cup coconut milk? Also the recipe calls for 2 eggs but the box calls for 3??? The rest is a mess to understand, which portion is for the frosting and which is for the filling? Please help!!
Reviews
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Fabulous! Instead of the 4 layers, I simplified it and made 2 9" cake layers, trimming the mounds on the top. I also used a "super moist" white cake mix with 2 whole eggs, instead of egg whites for the cake, to make it moist. I made a 1/2 recipe of the haupia filling to fill the two layers, and because my family loves it, I frosted it with White Mountain frosting from an old Betty Crocker cookbook (see recipe on recipezaar), sprinkling the top with angel flake coconut. The BEST cake ever! -
Thank you Annisette for this cake recipe! We got to a restaurant in chicago that serves this cake and I fell in love with it the first time I tried it! I was looking for this recipe for months and finally found it here! Today is the second time I made this cake and I absolutely LOVE IT! First time I didn't make the whipped cream and it was great, but today I frosted the cake with your fabulous lemony whipped cream and it is delicious! I would've given you 10 stars if I could! Thanks a million! -
Ditto the review from the two star reviewer. I only added one star because the cake did come out pretty tasty - but only after much confusion and improvising. Also, I guess I'm not an advanced baker so some of the points of confusion may be clear to someone with more experience. 1) the cake ingredient section is confusing because it says to follow the instructions on the box but the ingredients on the box I got are different from what's listed in this recipe 2) it's not clear that you're supposed to substitute some coconut milk for the water in the cake mix 3) the cakes come out SUPER thin, unless you're some sort of knife savant I don't think there's a way to cut those in half 4)I had to google how to whip heavy cream 5) what does it mean to heat the gelatin mixture over water?? Later I found out this means a double boiler. I just did it on the stove. Came out super clumpy. The frosting was still tasty but sort of embarrassing to have all the clumps in there. 6) major fail on the haupia filling. It was SO thin. I probably spent 15 min stirring it and it never really thickened, was worried about burning it so I finally just put it in the fridge hoping it would thicken as it cooled. Nope. I saw the other reviewer added gelatin so I tried that to a portion of the filling, but it didn't really thicken and started tasting weird so I aborted that. Finally ended up making some Jello vanilla pudding and adding some of the coconut mixture to that, and that was the filling we used. So it was sort of salvaged. Later I googled about this and one person said to use frozen coconut milk rather than canned (which I used). So maybe that's where I went wrong. -
I am going to make this recipe. do I use canned coconut milk?
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Invited to a Hawaiian themed party i made this cake.first time. I can understand why one reviewer thought it was a bit difficult however if you allow time to bake, cut, fold, and prepare then its easier than you think . I followed the recipe completely and had a small bowl of pudding leftover. Perhaps next time ill use it all. The pudding was still warm (my fault for not allowing more cooling time) so my cake shifted a bit in transit. Nonetheless the cake was a homerun! It was moist, flavorful and not too sweet. Perfect cake for any occassion and I will definitely make it again...and again
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