If you like Coconut, you'll love this recipe for moist, delicious, Coconut cake. It's easy to make and full of coconut goodness and has a bit of texture.
Preparation time: 25 minutes
Baking time : 50 minutes
HOW TO MAKE COCONUT CAKE
INGREDIENTS ( makes 8 inch cake )
250g Butter
250g Granulated sugar
7 Eggs
10ml Milk
350g Plain flour
100g Desiccated coconut
4 teaspoons Baking powder
Grated lemon zest (Optional)
1 teaspoon Coconut essence or extract
Nutmeg (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Tip: Measure all ingredients ready, grease and line the bottom of the baking pan with baking sheet before commencing.
1) Sift the plain flour and baking powder in a bowl, mix in desiccated coconut and set aside.
2) In a mixing bowl add the butter and sugar and beat with electric mixer till it’s fluffy and turns pale.
3) Break the eggs into a bowl, add coconut extract or essence, lemon zest, nutmeg and beat the mixture lightly.
4) Add the eggs to the butter/sugar mixture very slowly while still mixing with electric mixer. This is to prevent the mixture from curdling.
5) Stop the electric mixer and carefully fold flour into the mixture with a big spoon or spatula. It's important you do not over mix the batter after folding in the flour as your cake will be dense and hard if you do so.
6) Pour batter into lined baking pan and bake in pre heated oven at 180 degrees centigrade (gas mark 4) for 45minutes or till cake is done.
Tip: To check if cake is done, dip a toothpick or skewer in the middle of the cake, if it comes out clean then the cake is ready. If it comes out wet then bake some more.
7) When the cake is done, take it out of the oven and let it cool for about 20minutes then remove from baking pan onto a rack and leave till it is well cooled.
8) Remove the baking sheet from the base.
There you have Coconut Cake.
If you want to decorate this cake, check out my buttercream recipe HERE
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I have made sponge cake, orange cake and agege bread using your recipes, and wow the results were impressive. I am so glad i came across your blog, you are the best aunty K, God bless you more.
I'll love to try out your coconut recipe too soon. Thanks
Thanks so much for the feedback.
my cake always comes out white. how do I get this lovely brown colour
Thank you, I made the coconut cake today and turned out lovely. I decorated it using butter icing waiting to be devour tomorrow lol. if you send me your e mail I will be more than happy to send it to you xx
Welldone! Enjoy the cake and your day :). You can email info @kscuisine.com
nice one, will like to try it, can I use raw grated coconut instead of the desiccated coconut, and is the coconut extract compulsory or can I swap it with vanilla extract xx
Thanks Abiodun. Yes you can use raw grated coconut and no coconut extract is not compulsory. You can use vanilla extract instead. Don't forget to feedback when you've tried it 🙂
ok, I won't. I will try it on Saturday as sunday is my wedding anniversary. will try to decorate it as well hahaaaaaaa
Congrats and happy anniversary in advance. Many more years of togetherness. Wish you luck with the decoration. Would love to see picture of the decorated cake. You can email to me if you don't mind 🙂