Aunt Connie's Coconut Cake

Name: Aunt Connie's Coconut Cake
Prep time: 2 h 50 min
Cook time: 2 h 50 min
Total time: 2 h 50 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons baking soda; 118 milliliters butter, softened; 2 Tbsps cornstarch; 6 eggs; 710 milliliters all-purpose flour; 237 milliliters milk; 0 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters solid vegetable shortening; 237 milliliters sour cream; 198 grams 1/2 package sweetened flaked coconut; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 237 milliliters white sugar

Need a vegetarian dessert? Aunt Connie's Coconut Cake could be a tremendous recipe to try. One portion of this dish contains about 9g of protein, 33g of fat, and a total of 582 calories. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 10. It will be a hit at your Mother's Day event. Head to the store and pick up vanillan extract, coconut, solid vegetable shortening, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).

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Grease a 10-inch tube pan.

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Frying Pan

Combine flour, salt, and baking soda in a bowl.

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Baking Soda

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Bowl

Beat 1 1/2 cup butter and 3 cups sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color.

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Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

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Beat eggs one at a time into butter mixture, allowing each egg to blend completely before adding the next. Beat in sour cream and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract with the last egg.

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Vanilla Extract

Sour Cream

Butter

Egg

Gradually stir flour mixture into egg mixture, mixing until just incorporated.

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All Purpose Flour

Egg

Fold in 7 ounces flaked coconut, mixing just enough to evenly combine.

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Coconut Flakes

Pour the batter into prepared pan.

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Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 90 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

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Toothpicks

Wire Rack

Oven

Frying Pan

Whisk milk and cornstarch in a saucepan over medium heat until mixture becomes very thick, stirring constantly, about 5 minutes; set aside to cool completely.

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Corn Starch

Milk