Coconut Cake

By Peggie

Coconut fans, this dessert is for you. With coconut in the cake batter and frosting, plus a generous coating of shredded coconut to finish

Ingredients

• 1 box (1 lb 2.25 oz) butter recipe yellow cake mix or white cake mix
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup canned coconut milk (not cream of coconut)
• 1/2 cup water
• 3 eggs
• 1 bag (14 oz) flaked coconut
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 container (16 oz) sour cream
• 1 container (8 oz) frozen whipped topping, thawed
• 1/4 teaspoon coconut extract

Details

Servings 16
Preparation time 30mins

Preparation

Step 1

Heat oven to 350°F. Generously grease bottoms and sides of 2 (8-inch) round cake pans with shortening. Line pans with waxed paper; grease paper and lightly flour.

In large bowl, beat cake mix, butter, coconut milk, water and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes. Pour batter into pans.

Bake 33 to 38 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Remove cakes from pans to cooling racks; remove waxed paper. Cool completely, about 40 minutes.

In medium bowl, stir together 2 cups of the coconut, the sugar and sour cream. Spoon 2 cups of the mixture into large bowl; stir in whipped topping, coconut extract and 1 cup of the remaining coconut. Set aside.

Cut each cake horizontally to make 2 layers. Spread one-third (about 2/3 cup) of the coconut-sour cream mixture without whipped topping on cut side of 1 layer. Repeat layers twice. Top with remaining layer, cut side down.

Frost top and side of cake with reserved coconut-whipped topping mixture. Press remaining coconut into top and side of cake. Cover; refrigerate 8 hours before serving.