Ambrosia Coconut Cake

Name: Ambrosia Coconut Cake
Prep time: 11 h
Cook time: 11 h
Total time: 11 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp baking powder; 237 milliliters butter, softened; 1 slice Garnishes: sweetened flaked coconut, fresh mint, maraschino cherries, orange; 0 teaspoons coconut extract; 118 milliliters coconut milk; 4 larges eggs, separated; 710 milliliters all-purpose flour; 118 milliliters milk; 473 milliliters sugar; 0 teaspoons table salt; 12 servings Vanilla Buttercream; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Ambrosia Coconut Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 429 calories, 6g of protein, and 19g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 12. A mixture of garnishes: coconut, milk, coconut extract, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. Mother's Day will be even more special with this recipe. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 11 hour.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 35

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Beat butter at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until fluffy; gradually add sugar, beating well.

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Butter

Sugar

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Stand Mixer

Add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.

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Egg Yolk

Combine flour and baking powder; stir together milk and coconut milk.

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Baking Powder

Coconut Milk

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Stir in extracts.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Beat egg whites and salt at high speed until stiff peaks form. Stir about one-third egg whites into batter; fold in remaining egg whites. Spoon batter into 3 greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans.

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Salt

Bake at 350 for 18 to 22 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks, and cool completely.

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Place 1 cake layer on a serving platter. Spoon 1/3 cup Vanilla Buttercream into a zip-top plastic bag. Snip 1 corner of bag to make a small hole. Pipe a ring of frosting around cake layer just inside the top edge. Top with half of Ambrosia Filling, and spread to edge of ring. Top with a second cake layer. Repeat procedure with frosting and filling. Top with remaining cake layer, and spread frosting on top and sides of cake.

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Frosting