Coconut Cake with Buttercream Frosting

Name: Coconut Cake with Buttercream Frosting
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 59 milliliters butter, softened; 6 Tbsps butter, softened; 1 Tbsp cake flour; 283 grams 1/2 cups cake flour (about; 0 teaspoons coconut extract; 1 teaspoons cream of tartar; 59 milliliters egg substitute; 5 larges egg whites; 2 larges eggs; 177 milliliters light coconut milk; 0 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sugar; 473 milliliters sugar; 3 Tbsps toasted flaked sweetened coconut; 59 milliliters water

Coconut Cake with Buttercream Frosting might be a good recipe to expand your dessert repertoire. This recipe serves 16. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains roughly 4g of protein, 9g of fat, and a total of 311 calories. Head to the store and pick up cream of tartar, butter, eggs, and a few other things to make it today. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Mother's Day. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Coconut-Vanilla Bean Cake with Coconut Meringue Buttercream Frosting, Pumpkin Maple Cake with Chocolate Coconut Buttercream Frosting, and Full House: Coconut Cupcakes, Lemon Curd Filling, Coconut-Lemon Buttercream Frosting, Toasted Coconut.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 35

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Oven

To prepare cake, coat 3 (8-inch) round cake pans with cooking spray; line bottoms of pans with wax paper. Lightly coat wax paper with cooking spray; dust pans with 1 tablespoon flour.

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Cooking Spray

All Purpose Flour

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Wax Paper

Lightly spoon 2 1/2 cups flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife.

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All Purpose Flour

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Measuring Cup

Knife

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt, stirring with a whisk.

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Baking Powder

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

Place 2 cups sugar and 6 tablespoons butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed for 2 minutes or until well blended.

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Butter

Sugar

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Blender

Bowl

Add egg substitute and eggs to sugar mixture; beat well.

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Egg Substitute

Sugar

Egg

Add flour mixture and coconut milk alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in 1/4 teaspoon extract.

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Coconut Milk

Extract

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Spoon batter into prepared pans. Sharply tap the pans once on countertop to remove air bubbles.

Bake at 350 for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes on wire racks; remove from pans.

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Oven

Remove wax paper; discard. Cool cakes on wire racks.

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Wax Paper

To prepare frosting, combine 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cup water in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook 3 minutes, without stirring, or until a candy thermometer registers 25

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Frosting

Candy

Sugar

Water

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Sauce Pan

Combine egg whites, cream of tartar, and 1/8 teaspoon salt in a large bowl; using clean, dry beaters, 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, beating at high speed until stiff peaks form, about 3 minutes. Reduce mixer speed to low; continue beating until egg white mixture cools (about 12 minutes).

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Simple Syrup

Egg Whites

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Blender

Beat 1/4 cup butter until light and fluffy; stir in 1/4 teaspoon extract, if desired. Fold in 1 cup egg white mixture. Fold butter mixture into remaining egg white mixture, stirring until smooth.

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Egg Whites

Extract

Butter

Place 1 cake layer on a plate; spread with 1 cup frosting. Repeat twice with cake layers and 1 cup frosting, ending with cake layer; spread remaining frosting over top and sides of cake.

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Frosting

Spread

Sprinkle with toasted coconut. Chill until set.

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Coconut