Coconut Layer Cake
Coconut Layer Cake

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, coconut layer cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Coconut Layer Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Coconut Layer Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

This perfect coconut cake sets the bar for homemade cakes everywhere. For the coconut lover, a teetering creation of tender sour-cream cake, coconut filling, and piles of This recipe yields a six-layer cake. However, if you prefer the look of five layers, the extra cake layer.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook coconut layer cake using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Coconut Layer Cake:
  1. Get Cake
  2. Make ready 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature
  3. Get 24 oz unsweetened flaked coconut
  4. Get 2 1/4 cup cake flour
  5. Prepare 2 tsp baking powder
  6. Make ready 1/2 tsp baking soda
  7. Take 1/4 cup virgin coconut oil
  8. Take 1 1/2 cup sugar
  9. Make ready 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  10. Get 1/4 tsp ground cardamom
  11. Take 3 large eggs
  12. Take 1 1/4 cup buttermilk
  13. Get Frosting
  14. Make ready 2 cup sugar
  15. Get 3 tbsp honey
  16. Make ready 6 large egg whites
  17. Get 1/4 tsp kosher salt + 1/8 tsp.
  18. Take 1/4 tsp cream of tartar + 1/8 tsp.
  19. Make ready 12 oz jar orange marmalade

Frost top and sides of cake, then sprinkle all over with coconut and press coconut onto sides. A delicious and moist fresh coconut cake with fluffy frosting. This impressive and wonderfully moist layer cake is less sweet than the usual coconut affair, thanks to a tangy cream cheese frosting on top and dose of orange juice in the batter. I had technical difficulties and re uploaded video.

Steps to make Coconut Layer Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease two 8inch round cake pans and line bottoms with parchment paper.
  2. Place 4 cups of the coconut in a blender and pulse until finely ground. Spread the ground coconut on a baking sheet. On a separate baking sheet spread the remaining coconut. Toast both sheets for 7 to 8 minutes stirring occasionally until lightly golden, let cool.
  3. Into a large bowl sift the cake flour, baking powder and baking soda. In another large bowl using an electric mixer, cream the 1 1/2 sticks of butter with the coconut oil, sugar, salt and cardamom at medium-high speed until light about 3 minutes. Beat in the ground toasted coconut. Beat the 3 eggs, one at a time until incorporated. At low speed beat in the flour mixture and Buttermilk in 3 alternating batches, starting and ending with the flour.
  4. Divide the batter evenly between the 2 pans. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes until the cakes are deep golden and springy. Transfer the cakes out and peel off parchment. Cut each cake in half horizon tally to create 4 layers.
  5. Frosting: In a large saucepan, boil the sugar, honey and 3/4 cup of water over moderately high heat until the syrup registers 240°F. Meanwhile, in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk, beat the egg whites at medium speed until foamy, beat in salt and cream of tartar until soft peaks form. With the mixer on, drizzle the hot syrup down the side of the bowl. Once all the syrup is added, beat the frosting at high speed until shiny and thick (11 minutes). Let cool.
  6. Set a cake layer cut side up on a plate. Spread one third of the marmalade over the top then spread with 1/2 cup of the frosting, repeat with 2 more cake layers. Top with the last layer. Coat the cake with the remaining frosting. Cover with the toasted coconut.

Everyone needs a coconut layer cake in their life. The combination of moist coconut cake, orange scented. This Coconut Layer Cake is unfrosted on the outside. Sometimes known as a "naked cake," this easy unfrosted Coconut Layer Cake is the perfect solution for people who suck at spreading frosting. This Coconut Cake Recipe is made from scratch and full of bold coconut flavor and topped off with a coconut cream cheese No adjustments are required to the ingredients to make a two layer cake.

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