This extremely moist coconut cake is layered with raspberry filling and creamy coconut cream cheese frosting, after which coated in a thick layer of shredded coconut! Make it a showstopper by adorning with edible flowers or contemporary raspberries. A should attempt for raspberry coconut lovers!
My Well-known Coconut Cake Recipe
If you already know me, you already know that I completely love coconut cake! And with summer time within the air, I wished to share one thing mild, fairly, and ideal for the brand new season. Enter this gorgeous coconut snowball cake!
The cake layers are moist and tender, and you’ll 100% style the coconut taste… however the cake doesn’t style like tan lotion! Just like my Tom Cruise coconut cake, it has simply the correct quantity of coconut taste.
I had some contemporary flowers from my backyard, so I topped the cake with a number of large blooms. But when flowers on dessert isn’t your factor, go away it plain! Or high with a mountain of contemporary raspberries!
Coconut Cake Components: Get the Finest Coconut Taste
- All-Function Flour: Measure your flour through the use of a digital kitchen scale. Or by calmly scooping it into the measuring cup. That is crucial of the dry components to measure proper!
- Baking Powder: Helps the cake batter rise within the oven, be sure the baking powder is contemporary.
- Baking Soda: Helps the cake batter unfold evenly within the cake pans, be sure the baking soda is contemporary.
- Salt: Enhances the flavors on this coconut cake recipe, and helps stability sweetness.
- Butter: I all the time counsel utilizing unsalted butter, however in a pinch, use salted butter and omit the salt referred to as for.
- Sugar: For greatest outcomes, use granulated sugar and don’t scale back the quantity referred to as for. Utilizing brown sugar will work, however will alter the colour of the cake batter.
- Vanilla Extract: For the perfect wealthy taste, use pure vanilla extract.
- Coconut Extract: Only a small quantity enhances the coconut taste.
- Almond Extract: Enhances the coconut taste, however you possibly can omit it.
- Egg Whites: Don’t use entire eggs right here, you solely need the whites. Ensure that to beat the egg whites till frothy. This helps the cake batter puff up within the oven.
- Coconut Milk: I like utilizing full-fat canned coconut milk. I don’t counsel utilizing common milk or different nut milks, as they received’t add coconut taste.
- Bitter Cream: In a pinch, sub with coconut yogurt or plain full-fat Greek yogurt.
- Coconut Oil: I counsel utilizing unrefined coconut oil for the perfect coconut taste.
- Shredded Coconut: For the cake, I counsel utilizing finely shredded unsweetened coconut. Don’t add greater than referred to as for, or it’ll dry out the cake batter.
Components for the Frosting Recipe
- Butter: I all the time counsel utilizing unsalted butter, however in a pinch, use salted butter and omit the salt referred to as for.
- Cream Cheese: Use brick-style full-fat cream cheese, equivalent to Philadelphia model.
- Vanilla Extract: For the perfect wealthy taste, use pure vanilla extract.
- Salt: Enhances the flavors on this coconut cake frosting recipe, and helps stability sweetness.
- Coconut Extract: Only a small quantity enhances the coconut taste.
- Coconut Milk: I like utilizing full-fat canned coconut milk. I don’t counsel utilizing common milk or different nut milks, as they received’t add coconut taste.
- Confectioners’ Sugar: Thickens the frosting recipe and helps sweeten it. I counsel sifting the confectioners’ sugar earlier than use, so your frosting recipe is clump free.
- Raspberry Preserves: My secret ingredient to this coconut cake, that is unfold between the cake layers.
- Shredded Coconut: I really like urgent coconut flakes on the edges of the cake. This provides nice taste and texture to the cake!
Unsweetened Coconut VS Sweetened Shredded Coconut
- Unsweetened coconut is available in a wide range of sizes and shapes. Why I like utilizing it in cake recipes is that it provides coconut taste, with out including sweetness.
- I counsel utilizing finely shredded unsweetened coconut for the cake batter. And enormous coconut flakes for the edges of the cake. The massive coconut flakes don’t work nice within the cake batter as a result of they make create air pockets and bake up fairly chewy.
- This coconut cake recipe is already candy, so it doesn’t want the added sweetness of sweetened shredded coconut.
- That being stated, in a pinch, you should use sweetened shredded coconut. However it’ll make this coconut cake recipe a lot sweeter.
Make the Cake Batter
- Preheat your oven to 350 levels earlier than you start baking! This manner your oven has loads of time to come back to temperature.
- Ensure that all your components are at room temperature! This implies the egg whites, butter, and bitter cream.
- Correctly put together your cake pans! You’ll need to generously spray the tops and sides with nonstick baking spray, and line the underside with a parchment paper spherical. This ensures you received’t should battle to get your muffins out of the pans.
- You’ll want a stand mixer or electrical hand mixer for this recipe!
- Beat the butter and sugar till it’s mild and fluffy! This takes about 3 minutes, so be affected person. And use a rubber spatula to scrape the butter combination off the edges and backside of the bowl each 30 seconds or so.
- Don’t over combine when you add within the flour combination! That is what causes dry cake! As an alternative, beat on low, and blend till the components are simply mixed!
- Scrape your batter within the ready pans and bake for about 20 minutes! When you’re solely making two layers, then your muffins may take anyplace between 28 and half-hour. It’s prepared when a toothpick inserted within the middle comes out clear.
- Cool the muffins within the pans, on a cooling rack, for 20 minutes, then take away and funky utterly earlier than frosting!
- In case your frosting appears too skinny, add somewhat extra powdered sugar, 1/4 cup at a time. However ONLY do that is essential, as a result of it’ll make your frosting very candy.
This coconut cake recipe is ideal for a bridal bathe, party, or perhaps a small yard marriage ceremony! The flavors and textures are divine, and the cake can also be a complete showstopper.
Simply ensure you retain it out of direct daylight and warmth, as a result of the cream cheese frosting WILL soften after some time. I converse from expertise lol! Fortunately this cake will preserve effectively, saved within the fridge, for as much as 24 hours!
