How To Make Old-Fashioned Coconut Cake Recipe
You can’t get any more traditional than this white and fluffy as a cloud coconut cake. The tender crumb is frosted with vanilla icing and coconut flakes.
Prep: 30 mins
Cool: 2 hrs 10 mins
Cook: 20 mins
Total: 3 hrs
Serves:
Ingredients
- For Cake:
- 1½ cups white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup butter
- 2½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- For Frosting:
- 1¾ cups white sugar
- ½ cup water
- 4 egg whites, room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp cream of tartar
- 2 cups coconut, sweetened and flaked, or as needed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease three 9-inch round cake pans.
- Mix sugar, eggs, and egg yolks together in a mixing bowl using an electric mixer for about 5 minutes until light and fluffy.
- Heat milk and butter in saucepan over low heat for 2 to 3 minutes until butter melts. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
- Combine flour and baking powder in a bowl. Pour into egg mixture. Add vanilla extract and milk mixture; beat well using an electric mixer. Divide batter evenly among the prepared pans.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 15 to 18 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean.
- Let cool in pans for 10 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, thoroughly clean mixing bowl and beaters. Beat egg whites and cream of tartar with an electric mixer until foamy.
- Bring sugar and water to a boil in a saucepan. Boil for 3 to 4 minutes, until a candy thermometer reads 242 degrees F.
- Beat egg whites on high speed. Carefully pour in hot sugar mixture in the side of the bowl, avoiding the beaters; continue to beat on high for 6 to 8 minutes until stiff peaks form. Stir in vanilla extract.
- Place 1 cooled cake layer on a serving platter and frost the top. Repeat with second and third layers of cake.
- Complete frosting the sides, top, and throughout. Sprinkle coconut on top and smooth onto sides of cake using hands.
Nutrition
- Calcium: 127.1mg
- Calories: 464.0kcal
- Carbohydrates: 77.8g
- Cholesterol: 97.7mg
- Fat: 14.9g
- Fiber: 1.9g
- Iron: 2.0mg
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.2g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.8g
- Potassium: 156.4mg
- Protein: 6.4g
- Saturated Fat: 9.9g
- Sodium: 131.7mg
- Sugar: 56.2g
- Trans Fat: 0.3g
- Vitamin A: 102.6mcg
- Vitamin C: 0.4mg
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