Coconut Pound Cake From Scratch Food

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.

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 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 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.

OLD FASHIONED COCONUT CAKE

Steps:

• Combine eggs and sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
• Add flour and baking powder and beat on low until smooth.
• Add coconut flavoring.
• Combine milk and butter in a saucepan and heat until butter melts.
• Fold into other mixture.
• Bake in 2 or 3 greased and floured 8 or 9 inch cake pans at 350°F for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Thaw the packages of coconut.
• Squeeze each opened package coconut over the cooled cakes so that the coconut "milk" is sprinkled over the cake and soaks into the cake. Ice generously with "Seven-Minute Frosting" (#96449).
• Topping the icing with the coconut (in between the layers too!).

COCONUT CREAM CAKE - PAULA DEEN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Grease and flour three 9 inch round pans. (I put small parchment round in the bottom of the pan).
• For the cake, cream the butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Combine the flour and baking powder: add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with flour.
• Stir in the vanilla.
• Divide the batter evenly among the prepared pans and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until firm to the touch.
• Cool the cakes for 10 minutes in the pans, then turn out to cool completely.
• While the cakes cool, make the filling: In a large chilled bowl, whip the heavy cream until stiff. Fold in the sour cream, then gradually add the confectioners sugar. Stir in the vanilla, then fold in the coconut.
• To serve, split each cake later in half horizontally. Spread the filling between the layers and on the top of the cake. Place the cake in an airtight container and refrigerate for 3 days before serving.
• When ready to serve remove from refrigerator and sprinkle with coconut. If desired frost with cool whip and then sprinkle coconut.

COCONUT CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*.
• Cream butter and shortening.
• Gradually add sugar; beating until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Combine flour and baking powder; add to creamed mixture alternating with cream of coconut, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Stir in lemon rind and vanilla.
• Pour batter into greased and floured 10" tube pan.
• Bake at 350* for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan for 10-15 minutes; remove from pan and cool completely on wire rack.

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.

LEMON COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• preheat oven to 325 grease and flour a 10" tube pan in a large bowl beat sugar, butter and shortening until fluffy add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition add lemon juice and extracts add flour and eggnog, beating well stir in coconut pour into prepared pan and bake for 1 hr 15 minsuntil done cool for 10 minutes turn out to a wire rack, cool completely for glaze, mix together the ingredients and drizzle over cake.