Coconut Cake

By Queenbee_47

I remember as a little girl, always having this cake on Easter Sunday.

Ingredients

• Icing:
• 1/2 cup Butter
• 1 1/2 cup Sugar
• 3 cups Cake Flour
• 3 tsp. Baking Powder
• 1/2 cup Water
• 1/2 cup Milk
• 1 tsp. Vanilla
• 3 Egg Whites, stiffly beaten
• 2 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1/4 cup White Corn Syrup
• 3/4 cup Boiling Water
• 2 Egg Whites, stiffly beaten
• 1 tsp. Vanilla
• 1 to 1 1/2 cups Coconut

Preparation

Step 1

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Sift cake flour with baking powder 3 times and add alternately with water and milk. Add vanilla and fold in egg whites. Bake in 2 layers at 375 degrees until golden.

Icing:
Mix sugar, corn syrup, boiling water and stir over low heat until clear. Boil slowly to soft ball stage. Pour half over 2 stiffly beaten egg whites, add vanilla. Cook other half to hard ball stage and add to first half and beat slowly until it begins to hold shape. When thick, spread on cake. Sprinkle both layers and sides with grated coconut.