How to Make Delicious Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday

Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday.

Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday You can have Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday using 18 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday

  1. It’s of COCONUT CAKE.
  2. It’s 1 of FOR THE COCONUT CAKE.
  3. It’s 6 large of eggs.
  4. You need 1 1/2 cup of coconut milk.
  5. Prepare 3 tbsp of sjredded sweetened coconut.
  6. It’s 1 cup of melted butter.
  7. You need 1 cup of granulated sugar.
  8. You need 1 tsp of 1/8 salt.
  9. Prepare 2 cup of all-purpose flour.
  10. It’s 4 tsp of baking powder.
  11. You need of COCONUT BUTTERCREAM FROSTING.
  12. Prepare 8 oz of unsalted butter, at room temperature ( 2 sticks ).
  13. Prepare 4 cup of confectioners sugar.
  14. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
  15. Prepare 1/4 cup of coconut milk.
  16. It’s of COCONUT TOPPING.
  17. It’s 6 cup of shredded sweetened coconut.
  18. Prepare of food coloring, as many or little colors as wanted. I used four colors for this cake as explained in direction step #14.

Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday instructions

  1. MAKE CAKE.
  2. Preheat oven to 350. Grease two 9 inche cake pans..
  3. Add the 3 tablespoons shredded coconut to the coconut milk and set aside to soak.
  4. Separate egg whites into a medium bowl and egg yolks into a large bowl.
  5. Beat egg whites with an electric mixer until stiff, set aside.
  6. To the egg yolks add the sugar,salt and melted butter, beat until smooth..
  7. Stir the baking powder into the flour than add this, and the coconut milk with the shredded, coconut milk to the egg yolk mixture, beat until well combined. Fold the egg whites into the egg yolk batter until combined..
  8. Pour batter into prepared pans and bake abput30 to 40 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean cool before frosting.
  9. FOR COCONUT BUTTER CREAM FROSTING.
  10. Beat butter with an electric mixer until fluffy add sugar and coconut milk and vanilla beat until light and fluffy adding more coconut milk if dry, more sugar if wet..
  11. FROST COOLED CAKE WITH FROSTING.
  12. Cover cake with plain sweetened coconut..
  13. MAKE COLORED COCONUT.
  14. In 4 small bowls add 1 tablesppn water add drops of food color to each bowl, one drop is enough for primary colors add more to darken or change colors. Add 1 cup coconut to each bowl of color and mix well. Turn out on to plate to dry a bit. Decorate cake with colored coconut..
  15. I also decorated this cake with spring colored peanut M&M's.

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