Jamie's Coconut Cake |
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| This Paula Deen recipe is time-consuming, but well worth the effort. It's pretty to look at, too. What a beautiful and tasty way to show your Valentine the love. :-) | |
from Paula Deen Cake
(this is Paula's 1-2-3-4
cake but with coconut milk instead of regular milk)
1 cup butter at room temperature
2 cups sugar
3 cups self-rising flour
4 eggs
1 cup unsweetened coconut milk
Grease and flour 3 9-inch pans. (I use greased parchment paper to cut down on sticking.) Using an electric mixer, cream butter until fluffy. Add sugar and continue to cream well for 6-8 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour and milk alternately to creamed mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Add vanilla and beat until just mixed. Divide batter equally among prepared pans. Level batter by holding each pan 3 or 4 inches above counter, then dropping it flat onto counter. Do this several times to release air bubbles and assure a more level cake.
Bake 25-30 minutes at 350 degrees or until done. Cool in pans 5-10 minutes. Invert cakes onto cooling racks. Cool completely and spread cake layers with filling (below). Cover tops and sides with frosting (recipe follows filling).
Filling
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup sour cream
4 Tbsp milk
1/2 cup flaked coconut
Stir ingredients together until well mixed.
Assembly: Using the wrong end of a fork, poke holes approximately 1 inch apart until entire cake has been poked. Spread with 1/3 of filling mixture. Stack and repeat with remaining two layers. Frost with:
Seven-minute Frosting
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
1/8 tsp salt
1/3 cup water
2 egg whites
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup flaked coconut for sprinkling
Place sugar, cream of tartar, salt, water and egg whites in the top of a double boiler. Beat with a handheld mixer for 1 minute. Place pan over boiling water, making sure the water does not touch the bottom of the pan. (If that happens it could cause the frosting to become grainy.) Beat constantly at high speed with electric mixer for 7 minutes. Beat in vanilla. Mine didn't set in 7 minutes so I removed from heat and continued to beat until it stiffened.
Frost tops and sides of cake, then sprinkle with coconut.
February 2008