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Coconut Cake and Glaze Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
CAKE:
1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon butter flavoring
6 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 (7 ounces) can coconut

GLAZE:
1 and 1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup boiling water
3 teaspoons coconut flavoring
Directions:
Directions:
CAKE:
Cream shortening and sugar. Add vanilla and butter flavoring. Then add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Blend in flour and salt. Fold in coconut. Bake in greased and floured tube pan at 325º for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Glaze.

GLAZE:
Bring to a boil all of the ingredients. Cook for 1 minute. Pour 3/4 of the mixture over the baked cake, then return to the oven for 3 minutes. Remove from oven, turn out of pan and pour remaining mixture over cake.

 

 

 

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