Chocolate Butter Cake with Creamy Coconut Frosting

Name: Chocolate Butter Cake with Creamy Coconut Frosting
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 Tbsp cornstarch; 0 teaspoons cream of tartar; 1 large egg; 3 larges egg whites; 3 larges eggs; 355 milliliters 6.75 ounces all-purpose flour (about; 237 milliliters 2% reduced-fat milk; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 Dash salt; 177 milliliters sugar, divided; 414 milliliters sugar; 118 milliliters unsalted butter, softened; 2 Tbsps unsalted butter; 118 milliliters unsweetened cocoa, sifted; 118 milliliters unsweetened flaked coconut, toasted and divided; 1 Tbsp vanilla extract; 2 Tbsps water; 237 milliliters whole milk

Need a vegetarian dessert? Chocolate Butter Cake with Creamy Coconut Frosting could be an amazing recipe to try. This recipe serves 16. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains around 5g of protein, 11g of fat, and a total of 291 calories. If you have egg, cornstarch, milk, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 35

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Oven

To prepare cake, line bottoms of 2 (9-inch) round cake pans with parchment paper. Coat pans lightly with cooking spray. Weigh or lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.

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Cooking Spray

All Purpose Flour

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Baking Paper

Measuring Cup

Knife

Combine flour, 1/2 cup cocoa, baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a bowl, stirring well with a whisk.

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Baking Powder

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Place 1 3/4 cups sugar and 1/2 cup butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy (about 2 minutes).

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Butter

Sugar

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Blender

Bowl

Add 3 eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

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Egg

Add flour mixture and whole milk alternately to butter mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture, and beat just until combined. Fold in vanilla.

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Whole Milk

Vanilla

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Divide batter evenly between prepared pans.

Bake at 350 for 27 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 25 minutes in pans on wire racks.

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Oven

Remove cakes from pans; cool completely on wire racks.

To prepare frosting, combine reduced-fat milk and 1/4 cup coconut in a small saucepan; bring to a boil.

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2 Percent Milk

Frosting

Coconut

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Sauce Pan

Remove from heat; let stand 15 minutes. Strain milk mixture through a sieve over a bowl; discard solids. Return milk to pan over medium heat.

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Milk

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Sieve

Bowl

Frying Pan

Combine 1/4 cup sugar, cornstarch, and 1 egg in a small bowl, stirring well with a whisk. Gradually add egg mixture to pan; bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce heat, and cook 1 minute, stirring constantly with a whisk.

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Corn Starch

Sugar

Egg

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Whisk

Bowl

Frying Pan

Remove from heat; add 2 tablespoons butter, stirring until butter melts.

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Butter

Place pan in a large ice-filled bowl; let stand 15 minutes or until pastry cream cools to room temperature, stirring occasionally.

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Pastry Cream

Ice

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Bowl

Frying Pan

Remove pan from ice. Spoon mixture into a bowl.

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Ice

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Bowl

Frying Pan

Place plastic wrap on surface; chill.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Combine remaining 1/2 cup sugar and 2 tablespoons water in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook 3 minutes, without stirring, or until a candy thermometer registers 25

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Candy

Sugar

Water

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Candy Thermometer

Sauce Pan

Combine egg whites, cream of tartar, and dash of salt in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at high speed until foamy.

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Cream Of Tartar

Egg Whites

Salt

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Blender

Bowl

Pour hot sugar syrup in a thin stream over egg whites; beat until stiff peaks form. Gently stir one-fourth of egg white mixture into chilled pastry cream; gently fold in remaining egg white mixture.

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Pastry Cream

Simple Syrup

Egg Whites

Place 1 cake layer on a plate; spread about 2 cups frosting over cake, leaving a (1/2-inch) border around outside edges. Top with remaining cake layer.

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Frosting

Spread

Spread remaining frosting over top of cake.

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Frosting

Spread

Sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup coconut evenly over top of cake.

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Coconut