Coconut Pound Cake Food

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.

COCONUT BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Spray a Bundt pan with nonstick baking spray and dust with flour.
• In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and baking powder.
• In a large bowl, using a hand mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in the eggs, 1 at a time. Once incorporated, add the extracts. Stir in the coconut milk and beat until combined. Slowly beat in the dry ingredients until the mixture is smooth.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a cake tester comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool cake 5 minutes before turning it out onto a rack. Let cool completely on the rack.
• Once the cake has cooled, ladle the glaze over the cake, and top with flaked coconut. Let glaze set before serving. Transfer the cake to a platter or serving dish and slice.
• In a mixing bowl, whisk the powdered sugar and the pineapple juice together until smooth.

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.

COCONUT-BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 4 1/2-by-8 1/2-inch loaf pan. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. In a large bowl, using a mixer, beat butter and granulated sugar on medium-high until light and fluffy, 8 minutes, scraping down bowl as needed. Add vanilla, then eggs, one at a time, beating well and scraping down bowl. With mixer on low, add flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with two 1/2-cup additions buttermilk, and beat until combined. With a rubber spatula, fold in 1 1/4 cups coconut.
• Transfer batter to pan and bake until a skewer inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 60 minutes. Let cool in pan on a wire rack set in a rimmed baking sheet, 1 hour. Remove cake from pan and let cool completely on rack. (Store at room temperature, wrapped in plastic, up to 4 days.)
• Whisk together confectioners' sugar and remaining 2 tablespoons buttermilk. Drizzle over cake and sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup coconut.

COCONUT CREAM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour two 9-inch diameter cake pans with 2-inch high sides.
• Pour the flour, baking powder, baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a medium bowl. Use a whisk to stir together. This will get rid of any lumps and pseudo-sift the ingredients. In a separate large bowl, beat the sugar, butter and sweetened cream of coconut until fluffy and it resembles whipped cream, about 2 minutes. Beat in the egg yolks and vanilla extract. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and stir to incorporate all the ingredients. With the mixer on low speed, beat in 1/2 the dry ingredients, followed by the buttermilk, and the remaining dry ingredients, scraping down the sides in between each addition, just until blended.
• Using clean, dry beaters, beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt in another clean large bowl until the egg whites are stiff but not dry. Cook's Note: You want to get the most volume from your egg whites, that's why it is essential that the beaters and bowl are clean. Just to be safe, I like to wipe the bowl out with a dash of vinegar, white or apple cider is best. The vinegar cuts through any fat in the bowl leaving only a sparkling bowl behind. And don't worry, you won't be able to taste the vinegar-I promise!
• In batches, fold the beaten egg whites into the batter, being careful not to deflate the whites. Divide the cake batter evenly between the prepared cake pans. Spread the batter with an offset spatula to level the batter in the pan. Bake the cakes until a tester inserted into center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Cool the cakes in the pans on a wire rack, about 10 minutes. Gently run a small sharp knife around the pan sides to loosen the cakes. Cook's Note: As the cakes cool they will shrink slightly, pulling away from the sides of the pan. By running the knife around the sides of the pan you are helping in the process by taking away any resistance. Turn the cakes out onto the racks and cool completely.
• With a pastry brush, gently brush any crumbs from the cooled cake layers. If the cake baked up with a slight dome in the center, you can trim it to even it out or just remember to place that cake layer dome-side down on the cake plate. Place 1 cake layer, flat-side up, on a cake plate. Spread 1 heaping cup Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting over the cake layer, leaving a 1/2-inch border of cake around the edge. This will give the filling a place to go or spread when the second cake layer is placed on top-you don't want it to bulge out the sides!
• Sprinkle 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut mix over the frosting. Top with the second cake layer, flat-side up. Spread the remaining frosting over the top and sides of the cake. For a retro look, I like swoopy swirls. The best way to achieve it is to spread the frosting using the back of a spoon. It's that easy!
• Sprinkle the remaining coconut mix over the cake, gently pressing into the sides to adhere. Coconut Layer Cake can be prepared up to 1 day ahead. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
• Beat the cream cheese in a medium bowl until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the butter and beat until smooth. Add the sugar, sweetened cream of coconut, vanilla extract and pinch of sea salt and beat until well blended, scraping down the sides as needed, for about 3 more minutes. Cook's Note: For a tropical twist, I add just a splash of fresh lime juice and a dash of finely grated lime zest to the mix!

COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 325°F.
• Butter a 9- by 5- by 3-inch loaf pan and dust with flour, knocking out excess flour.
• Whisk together flour (2 cups), baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
• Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes with a stand mixer or 8 to 10 minutes with a handheld. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, then beat in extracts. Reduce speed to low, then mix in flour mixture until just combined. Fold in coconut gently but thoroughly with a rubber spatula.
• Spoon batter evenly into loaf pan, smoothing top. Bake until golden and a wooden pick or skewer inserted into center comes out clean, 1 to 1 1/4 hours.
• Cool cake in pan on a rack 15 minutes. Run a thin knife around edge of cake, then invert onto rack and cool completely.

COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream the butter, shortening, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Beat in extracts. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture just until combined. Fold in coconut. Transfer to a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan., Bake at 325° for 1-1/2 hours or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar.

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.

COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F.
• Grease and flour 12-cup tube pan. Beat cream cheese and butter in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add sugar; beat until light and fluffy. Add coconut, cream of coconut and coconut extract; mix well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually add flour, beating on low speed after each addition until well blended.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake 1-1/2 hours or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 15 min. Remove cake from pan; cool completely.

HEAVENLY COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Beat together granulated sugar and butter with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until very fluffy and pale, about 8 minutes. Reduce speed to medium-low and beat in eggs, 1 at a time, until combined, stopping to scrape down sides of the bowl as needed. (Mixture will look broken, but will come together when flour is added.) Reduce speed to low and gradually add flour and salt until just combined. Fold in 1 cup shredded coconut.
• Generously grease a 12-cup Bundt pan with butter; coat inside of pan with ¼ cup shredded coconut, tapping out excess. Pour batter into pan and smooth the top. Bake until golden and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 50 to 55 minutes. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack and cool completely, about 1 hour.
• For the glaze: Whisk together powdered sugar and 2 tablespoons of the milk in a small bowl until smooth. If needed, whisk in remaining 1 tablespoon milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, to create a pourable glaze consistency. Pour over cooled cake. Top with ¼ cup shredded coconut.

COCONUT BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Generously grease and flour a bundt pan.
• In a medium bowl, mix flour and flaked coconut. Set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream together butter & sugar. Add eggs and mix until mixture is light and fluffy. Add sour cream, baking powder and coconut extract. Mix well.
• Add half of the flour mixture to creamed mixture, mix well. Add the remaining flour mixture and mix until well combined. Let cake batter rest for 5 minutes.
• Pour into prepared pan. Bake for for 60 - 75 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool 25 minutes. Invert onto serving plate and frost with coconut glaze.

COCONUT LEMON POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix the dry ingredients together.
• Add the room temperature butter and oil then beat until the mixture is well combined and starts clumping together. You want the butter to be dispersed with no lumps remaining in the flour.
• Whisk the eggs, coconut milk, lemon juice and zest together.
• Pour the wet ingredients into the batter while mixing on a low speed. Beat until just combined.
• Pour the batter into a greased and lined loaf pan (the one I used was 9"x 5" or 22cm x 12cm).
• Place in the oven and bake for 45-60 minutes or golden brown and a skewer inserted comes out clean.
• Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 20 minutes in the pan before turning out and cooling completely.
• Whisk the lemon juice, coconut milk and icing sugar together then drizzle over the cake.
• Decorate with strawberries and coconut flakes (optional) and serve.

COCONUT AND PASSION FRUIT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour an 8 1/2-by-4 1/2-inch loaf pan.
• Spread the coconut in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake until golden brown, 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer the toasted coconut to a plate to cool. Keep the oven on for baking the cake.
• Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. In a 2-cup measuring cup, whisk together the buttermilk and the passion fruit pulp and seeds.
• With an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the butter, sugar, and coconut oil in a large bowl until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl occasionally.
• Alternate adding the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture to the egg mixture, starting and ending with the flour mixture. Stir in 1 cup of the toasted coconut.
• Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and smooth the top. Sprinkle the top with the remaining 1/4 cup of toasted coconut. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 60 to 70 minutes. Transfer the pan to a wire rack to cool for 1 hour, then remove the cake from the pan and let cool completely.

COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour an 8 1/2-by-4 1/2-inch loaf pan, making sure to shake out any excess flour.
• In a medium bowl, whisk the 2 cups flour with the baking powder and salt.
• In a large bowl and using an electric mixer on medium-high, beat together the butter and sugar until fluffy, about 2 minutes. With the machine running, beat in the coconut oil, scraping down the bowl often, until combined. Beat in eggs one at a time, beating to blend between additions.
• Add half the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Add the coconut milk and beat to combine. Add the remaining dry ingredients and 1 cup of the toasted shredded coconut, and beat just until combined. Do not overmix.
• Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and smooth the top. Sprinkle the remaining 2 tablespoons shredded coconut evenly over the top.
• Bake until puffed and golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 60 to 70 minutes.
• Transfer to rack to cool for 20 minutes, then tip the loaf out onto the rack to cool completely. Store leftovers well wrapped at room temperature for up to 3 days, or in the freezer for up to a month.

COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F and line a 9"x 5" loaf pan with parchment paper (or lightly grease with butter).
• In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder and salt, and set aside.
• Blend 1/2 cup coconut in a food processor along with 1/4 cup of sugar, and set aside. (See notes below)
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, blend together the melted butter and 3/4 cup sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, blending for 10-15 seconds between each egg.
• Add the bowl of coconut and sugar that was processed together, and stir until well combined.
• Add coconut extract and vanilla extract.
• While slowly mixing, add flour mixture and milk in two batches(some flour, then some milk, then the rest of the flour and the rest of the milk). Stop mixing as soon as it's just combined.
• Immediately pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 55-65 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean. Cool the loaf cake in the pan for about 30 minutes, then move to a wire cooling rack with a baking sheet below (to catch the glaze you're about to add).
• After the cake has baked, leave the oven on, but reduce the temperature to 300°F. Spread 1/2 cup of coconut onto a baking sheet, and bake for 3-4 minutes (watch it closely). Remove from oven to cool.
• Prepare the glaze by simply whisking together the glaze ingredients. Depending on how hot the butter was, the glaze may be thin. Allow to cool a few minutes until the desired consistency is reached, then pour glaze over the loaf cake.
• Sprinkle toasted coconut over the top of the cake, allow the glaze to set up a few minutes, then slice and enjoy!

COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.
• In a large bowl, cream together 2 cups sugar and the butter. Fold in the eggs one at a time, fully incorporating each one before adding another.
• In separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, milk, flaked coconut, and 1 teaspoon coconut extract. Beat into the creamed mixture. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for just a few minutes, then place on cake platter.
• To make the glaze, mix together in a small saucepan 1 cup sugar, water, 1 teaspoon coconut extract, and walnuts. Boil for 1 minute, and pour over still warm cake.

COCONUT AND ORANGE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 ºF.
• Grease a tube pan and dust with flour.
• Sift flour, salt and baking soda in a medium pan.
• Add coconut to dry ingredients and mix with a whisk.
• In a large stand mixer bowl, cream the butter and sugar in a stand mixer until fluffy. About 4 to 5 minutes on medium high.
• Lower the stand mixer to medium and add one egg at a time.
• With the mixer still running at medium speed, add orange juice and orange zest.
• Stop the mixer and remove the bowl. Pour the dry ingredients and sour cream into the large bowl and mix until completely incorporated.
• Pour batter into greased pan and place in the oven on the middle rack.
• Bake for 90 minutes.
• Remove the cake from the oven and let cool for 20 (or more for heavy pans) minutes in the pan.
• Slide a sharp knife around the cake to loosen it and turn it onto a large plate, then back onto a cake platter/plate.
• Once the cake is cool, whisk the icing sugar and ¼ cup + 1 tbs of orange juice until thickened.
• Pour the glaze over the cooled cake.

RUM RAISIN POUND CAKE WITH COCONUT GLAZE

Steps:

• Combine the raisins and rum in a small bowl and soak for several hours or overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan or ring pan.
• Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
• Beat the butter in the bowl of an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the sugar. Beat until fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Beat in the eggs 2 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla and beat on low to combine. With a rubber spatula, gently fold in the flour mixture. Fold in the raisins with their soaking liquid.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until the top is golden and a cake tester or toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, about 1 hour.
• While the cake is baking, make the glaze: Whisk the confectioners' sugar and coconut milk together in a small bowl until there are no lumps; add more coconut milk or sugar to reach the consistency of school glue.
• Cool the cake in the pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan and place on the rack. While the cake is still warm, drizzle the coconut glaze over the top and sprinkle with the shredded coconut.

COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream sugar, shortening, and salt.
• Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
• Add extract and mix well.
• In a separate bowl, sift flour and baking powder.
• Add milk to creamed mixture.
• Add flour mixture to creamed mixture.
• Fold in coconut.
• Bake in a greased and floured bundt pan for 1 hour.
• About 10 minutes before cake is done, combine sugar, extract and water in a small saucepen.
• Bring to a boil and boil one minute.
• Pour over cake immediately after removing cake from the oven.
• Let cake sit 30 minutes before removing from pan.