My great-grandmother was famous for making her coconut cake around Christmas. This year, I decided to carry on that tradition.
This recipe isn't Mommom Rita's, but it's her style of cake which includes walnuts in the batter.
Ingredients:
- 2 sticks butter, room temperature
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons coconut extract
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 3/4 cup walnuts plus flour to coat
* *If you don't have buttermilk on hand try using 1/4 cup white vinegar and 3/4 cup milk. Let sit 5 minutes before putting it in the batter.
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray two 9-by-2-inch cake pans.
- In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. With mixer on low, beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in coconut extract.
- Alternately beat in flour mixture and buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix just until combined. Lightly stir in flour-coated walnuts.
- Divide batter between pans; smooth tops. Spin cakes around on the counter until the batter starts to come up the sides.
- Bake until cakes pull away from sides of pans, 27 to 31 minutes. Let cool in pans 10 minutes. Run a knife around edges of pans and invert cakes onto a wire rack. Let cool completely.
Coconut Icing
Ingredients:
- 1 stick butter, room temperature
- 1 box confectioner's sugar (3 3/4 cups)
- 3-4 tablespoons milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- shredded coconut
Directions:
- Place butter in a large mixing bowl. Blend with an electric mixer on low speed until fluffy, 30 second.
- Stop the machine and add confectioners' sugar, 3 tablespoons milk, and vanilla. Blend with the mixer on low speed until the sugar is incorporated, 1 minute. Increase the speed to medium and beat until light and fluffy, 1 more minute. Blend in as much confectioners' sugar or milk as needed until icing is stiff but spreadable.
- Ice cake. Before the icing sets, press coconut on the sides, middle, and top of cake.
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Enjoy!
2 comments:
Hi katie, coconut cake is a favorite of mine, I don't think I have tasted one with walnuts, I think I might just have to try it. Thanks for the recipe.
Blessings,
Sue
That cake sounds so good!
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