Chocolate Coconut Pound Cake Recipe 455 Food

CHOCOLATE COCONUT POUND CAKE RECIPE - (4.5/5)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees fahrenheit. Butter an 8"x4" loaf pan; line with parchment paper, leaving a generous overhang on long sides. Whisk flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking powder in a medium bowl; set aside. Using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat oil, ¼ cup butter, and 1½ cups sugar until pale and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating to blend between additions; beat until mixture is very light and doubled in volume, 5-8 minutes. Add vanilla. Reduce mixer speed to low and add dry ingredients in 3 additions, alternating with buttermilk in 2 additions, beginning and ending with dry ingredients (do not over mix; it will cause cake to buckle and split). Scrape batter into prepared pan and run a spatula through the center, creating a canal. Sprinkle with coconut and remaining 1 tablespoon sugar. Bake cake, tenting with foil if coconut browns too much before cake is done (it should be very dark and toasted), until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 70-80 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack; let cake cool in pan 20 minutes before turning out. DO AHEAD: Cake can be baked 5 days ahead. Keep tightly wrapped at room temperature.

CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 10-inch tube pan with butter.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa together. Set aside.
• With an electric mixer, cream the 1 cup butter, the shortening and the sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs one a time, beating well after each addition. With the motor running, add the flour mixture and the milk alternately, beginning and ending with the flour. Add the vanilla.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 1 hour. Check for doneness by inserting a toothpick into the cake; it should come out clean. Cool the cake in the pan for 30 minutes before turning it out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
• Slice the cake and serve topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

CHOCOLATE COCONUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray two 9-inch cake pans with nonstick spray and line the bottoms with parchment paper.
• Sprinkle half of the shredded coconut on a baking sheet. Toast in the oven until golden brown, stirring often, about 15 minutes. Let cool on the baking sheet.
• Combine the instant espresso and water in a measuring cup; stir until dissolved. Add to a medium bowl, along with the cake mix, vegetable oil and eggs. Beat for 2 minutes with a handheld mixer on medium speed. Divide the batter between the prepared cake pans and smooth the tops.
• Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cake comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Allow the cakes to cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then invert onto a baking rack and let cool completely.
• Meanwhile, combine the cream cheese, butter, coconut milk, salt and powdered sugar in a large bowl. Beat with a handheld mixer on medium speed until light, fluffy and smooth, about 4 minutes. Stir in the remaining (untoasted) coconut with a rubber spatula.
• If the cakes have domed in the center, trim to level the tops. Place one cake layer, up-side down, on a platter or plate. Spoon one-third of the frosting on top and spread evenly, almost completely to the edge. Place the other layer, up-side down, on top, pressing gently to anchor. Using an offset spatula, evenly frost the entire cake; if the frosting gets too soft, place it in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. Gently press the toasted coconut around the outside of the cake and sprinkle it over the top.
• Refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving.

COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease a bundt cake pan or a 10-inch fluted tube pan.
• Cream together butter and sugar in a mixing bowl.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each one.
• In a separate bowl, sift together flour and baking soda.
• Add sour cream, Coconut extract, and Rum extract to the sugar/butter/egg mixture and cream well.
• Add flour and baking soda and mix into a batter.
• Stir flaked coconut into the batter.
• Spoon batter into the greased pan.
• Bake at 350 for 1 1/4 hours or until toothpich inserted in center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and allow to cool 15 minutes before removing from pan.
• While cake is cooling, make the syrup by combining the water and sugar in a small saucepan.
• Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Remove from heat and stir in Almond extract.
• Before removing cake from pan, brush about 1/3 of the warm syrup onto the cake bottom.
• Invert cake onto a serving plate and brush on the remaining syrup.
• Allow the cake to completely cool, then serve.
• Store leftovers in an air-tight container.

CHOCOLATE-SWIRLED POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer 2 minutes or until creamy.
• Gradually add sugar, beating 5 to 7 minutes.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until yellow disappears.
• Add flour to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour.
• Mix at low speed just until blended after each addition.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Combine 1 cup batter and chocolate syrup, stirring until blended.
• Divide remaining batter in half; pour 1 portion into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.
• Spoon half of chocolate batter on top; repeat layers.
• Gently swirl batter with a knife.
• Bake at 300° for 1 hour and 40 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan, and cool completely on a wire rack.

COCONUT POUND CAKE (USING COCONUT MILK)

Steps:

• Preheat over to 325 degrees.
• Greese and flour 1 loaf pan, set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, mix softened butter and sugar together until fluffy.
• In a seperate small bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder, and shredded coconut.
• Add eggs, one at a time into butter/sugar mixture. Mix well.
• Add vanilla, then add coconut milk, alternating with flour/coconut mixture (this will prevent lumps).
• Pour batter into loaf pan and bake for 1 - 1 1/4 hours.
• If you wish to use the glaze, heat a sauce pan to medium high heat, add butter and brown sugar. Stirring constantly, once brown sugar has dissolved add the toasted coconut, vanilla and if desired 2 TBSP coconut milk. Remove from heat and allow to slightly cool. Stir just before pouring over cooled cake.

CHOCOLATE COCONUT BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Can use a chocolate glaze if you prefer.
• Preheat oven to 350° degrees.
• Grease and flour a 10" bundt pan.
• Filling: In a small bowl, beat egg whites till foamy.
• Slowly add sugar while beating whites until stiff peaks form.
• Stir in flour and coconut and set mixture aside.
• Cake batter: In a large bowl, mix remaining ingredients.
• Beat for 2 minutes with mixer at medium speed.
• Pour about 1/3 to 1/2 of the batter into the pan.
• Spoon the coconut mixture evenly on top of the batter.
• Fill the pan with the remaining batter.
• Bake at 350° for 50-55 minutes, or until cake tester inserted into center comes out clean.
• Let cake cool in the pan for about 15 minutes, remove from pan and finish cooling on rack.
• When cool, top with glaze.
• Confectioner's Sugar Glaze: In a small bowl, gradually stir milk into sugar, glaze should be thick enough to stay on the top of the cake, yet"drip" down the sides a bit.

GLAZED COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Cream sugar and Crisco.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each.
• Add Flavoring.
• Sift dry ingredients together and add alternating with the milk--begin and end with the flour.
• Bake in greased and floured tube pan for 1 hour and 20 minutes. You might want to start checking on this after 1 hour - sometimes my cake is finished about then.
• When cake is almost finished, start making the glaze.
• To make the Glaze: Put all ingredients for the glaze in pot and cook over medium heat.
• Let mixture boil for 5 minutes. It will bubble so you will need to watch it carefully so it won't boil over onto your stove - trust me, you don't want that to happen.
• When removed from the oven, pour glaze over the cake while it is still in the pan and let sit at least 8 hours or overnight.
• To remove from the pan, place the cake in the oven at 250°F for 5 minutes or long enough to loosen to the sugar glaze surrounding the cake.
• The cake should slide out of the tube pan easily - if it does not, put it back into the oven for a few more minutes and then try again.