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About The Dish
Coconut cake is one of the supreme recipes with a really easy preparation technique. Coconut cake has a beautiful soothing flavor which is the speciality of this dish. The moist texture and the intense coconut flavor make this dish a perfect match for those who want to have pure flavor in their food . As the name suggests , the star ingredient of the cake is coconut.
Coconut gives the shape and texture to the dish also in every bite you can taste the fresh coconut in its best taste. Overall, this dish is a fresh and classic blend of flavors which will definitely give you an extremely good experience of having it.
Details Of This Dish
| Preparation Time | 30 Minutes |
| Cooking Time | 25 Minutes |
| Total Time | 4 Hours 25 Minutes |
| Servings | 12 Servings |
| Difficulty | Easy |
Ingredients Of The Dish
To make coconut cake. All you need to have two and half cups of cake flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, half teaspoon of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of salt, three and half half cup of salted butter, one at two and half cup of granulated sugar, five large egg whites, half cup of sour cream, two teaspoons of pure vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon of coconut extract, one cup of unsweetened coconut milk, 1 cup of shredded coconut
For the coconut cream, all you need to have one cup of salted butter 8 ounces of full fat brick cream cheese, 5 cup of sugar, 2 teaspoon of coconut milk, half teaspoon of pure vanilla extract, half teaspoon of coconut extract, salt, 2 cup of sweet and shredded coconut.
Five Reasons To Make It
- This cake is soft and moist blends in your mouth very smoothly
- This cake gives you the pure flavors of coconut
- Can be eaten with tea or coffee
- The texture and the taste of this cake is truly very nicely
- Easy to make but taste beautiful
Preparation Steps
1. Preheating the oven
Preheating the oven is one of the important and initial steps of making the coconut cake. You have to preheat the oven to 350 Fahrenheit. for the perfect moist and spongy cake.
2. Preparing the cake tin
Preparing the cake wisely because it is one of the important steps. If you don’t do it properly then your cake batter will stick with the cake tin and you are unable to demold it properly and it will ruin all your hard work Therefore this is one of the most important and crucial steps of cake preparation.
Grease, your cake tin with a brush of butter and place a butter paper on the bottom of it, and also grease that butter paper now you have to dust the kicked tin with a little flour then tap the excess flour out of it. Now your cake tin is ready.
3. Making the cake base
For the cake you have to take a bowl then add cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together and keep it aside. This is the dry part of the cake.
Now in another bowl, you have to add butter salt together and whisk it until it’s creamy. It will take about two minutes to grab that consistency. Now you have to beat the egg whites in another bowl, until it becomes creamy and soft and light also.
Then add the Sour cream and the vanilla extract and coconut extract and beat it until it’s combined nicely. Now after combining it, you have to add the dry ingredients and solid butter and nicely mix it. Now you have to add the coconut milk very slowly and also the shredded coconut with your hands slowly and ensure that there are no lumps in the batter. The batter will be slightly thick.
4. Pouring the batter
Now you have to pour the batter in the cake tin which we had prepared and had to smooth it at the top of the surface with the help of a rubber spatula or any flat spoon.
5. Baking the cake
You have to bake the coconut cake for at least 21 to 23 minutes until it’s fully cooked and to check the cake you can use a toothpick in the center of the cake.
If it comes out clean then your cake is done and if it’s not then bake it for 5 to 7 minutes more. then bring it out the cake from the oven and cool it down for some time before frosting and assembling it.
6. Making the frosting
For making the frosting of the coconut cake in a large bowl, use a hand mixture or a whisk and then beat the butter cream cheese together until it’s creamy and smooth.
Then add the sugar, coconut milk, vanilla, extra coconut extract and a little bit of salt if you want to get the cake a sour cake, then whisk it again don’t make the frosting too thick or too thick it should be in a medium consistency.
7. Assembling and layering the cake
Now you have to cut the coconut cake base into 3 parts. Now you have to add one and a half cups of frosting in each layer, after the third layer, you have to cover the sides and the top of the cake with a healthy amount of frosting, then flatten with spatula for a nice look, you can skip it for the messy and beautiful presentation.
You have to add the shredded coconut on the top of the cake and also on the sides of the cake. Now you can make the cake more beautiful by making roses on the top of your cake with the help of the coconut frosting and your assembling and layering is done.
Presentation
As it is a cake, try to make the cake clean or Messy according to your preference, but decorate the whole cake by that theme only if you are trying to make the cake clean then after flatten the frosting.
Add the shredded coconut if you’re making the cake messy at the shredded coconut to make it look more beautiful. In this dish the messy presentation is recommended as it looks more beautiful and attractive. Also the shredded coconut also adds to the taste and makes it more tasty.
Excellence Tips
- Preheat the oven properly and also prepare your cake tin properly for smooth demolding of the cake.
- When you are preparing the cake base, ensure that there are no lumps in the batter otherwise the cake will not be perfect.
- When you are baking the cake, after the baking time, check the cake with a toothpick properly. If the toothpick is clean then only bring out the cake from the oven. Otherwise bake it for a few more minutes.
- Cool down the cake base before frosting. Otherwise when you cut the cake into layers, they will break.
- Don’t make the cake frosting, too thick or too thin. Also be careful when you are adding the coconut milk. Don’t add it in one time, add it in multiple steps to keep a check on the consistency of the frosting.
- Add healthy amounts of frosting in between the layers and on the top of the layer and side cover the cake with a healthy amount of frosting so that it looks nice and add a flatten in the cake nicely.
Pro Tip
The coconut cake is really tasty, but it becomes more tasty when you cool it down for 1 to 2 hours in the refrigerator. it really assembles the taste and also allows the cake to settle down the flavors.
So this is one of the simple and sweet recipes of coconut cake. Hope you will like it and make it and you will also enjoy it a lot. Thank you very much. See you soon as soon as possible with another recipe and excitement.