Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday
Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, coconut cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

Colored coconut is a great decoration for many reasons. It's easy to do (as you'll see below). You can make any color as dark or light as needed.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook coconut cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday using 18 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday:
  1. Take COCONUT CAKE
  2. Prepare 1 FOR THE COCONUT CAKE
  3. Make ready 6 large eggs
  4. Take 1 1/2 cup coconut milk
  5. Make ready 3 tbsp sjredded sweetened coconut
  6. Get 1 cup melted butter
  7. Prepare 1 cup granulated sugar
  8. Get 1 tsp 1/8 salt
  9. Make ready 2 cup all-purpose flour
  10. Take 4 tsp baking powder
  11. Make ready COCONUT BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
  12. Make ready 8 oz unsalted butter, at room temperature ( 2 sticks )
  13. Prepare 4 cup confectioners sugar
  14. Get 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  15. Take 1/4 cup coconut milk
  16. Take COCONUT TOPPING
  17. Take 6 cup shredded sweetened coconut
  18. Take food coloring, as many or little colors as wanted. I used four colors for this cake as explained in direction step #14

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Instructions to make Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday:
  1. MAKE CAKE
  2. Preheat oven to 350. Grease two 9 inche cake pans.
  3. Add the 3 tablespoons shredded coconut to the coconut milk and set aside to soak
  4. Separate egg whites into a medium bowl and egg yolks into a large bowl
  5. Beat egg whites with an electric mixer until stiff, set aside
  6. To the egg yolks add the sugar,salt and melted butter, beat until smooth.
  7. Stir the baking powder into the flour than add this, and the coconut milk with the shredded, coconut milk to the egg yolk mixture, beat until well combined. Fold the egg whites into the egg yolk batter until combined.
  8. Pour batter into prepared pans and bake abput30 to 40 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean cool before frosting
  9. FOR COCONUT BUTTER CREAM FROSTING
  10. Beat butter with an electric mixer until fluffy add sugar and coconut milk and vanilla beat until light and fluffy adding more coconut milk if dry, more sugar if wet.
  11. FROST COOLED CAKE WITH FROSTING
  12. Cover cake with plain sweetened coconut.
  13. MAKE COLORED COCONUT
  14. In 4 small bowls add 1 tablesppn water add drops of food color to each bowl, one drop is enough for primary colors add more to darken or change colors. Add 1 cup coconut to each bowl of color and mix well. Turn out on to plate to dry a bit. Decorate cake with colored coconut.
  15. I also decorated this cake with spring colored peanut M&M's

With the addition of whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and/or raspberry jam, it becomes a decadent dessert for any occasion. If you have ever baked with coconut flour, you know that it is not like other flours. It is EXTREMELY absorbent and requires a totally different ratio of It makes a perfect cake for any birthday celebration or for strawberry shortcake. The trick to making it fluffy and light is to fold in some egg whites just. I shared this coconut cake four years ago but I figured it was due time that I re-share it in case some of you may have This cake is elegant and sophisticated yet very traditional and simplistic and it's perfect for the holidays since it's not only incredibly delicious but it's.

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