Margie Swalm's Fresh Coconut Cake Recipe
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Ingredients: Cake:
5 eggs -beat separately ( can use 6 yolks and 3 whites)
2 cups sugar
1 cup milk
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
3 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
Coconut Filling:
1 cup coconut milk- if the coconut does not have 1 cup, finish with milk
3 tablespoons flour
1 cup sugar
2 egg whites (beaten stiff but not dry))
1 tablespoon butter
Grated coconut from one fresh coconut
Icing:
⅔ cup water
2 cups sugar
2 egg whites
2 tablespoons white corn syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
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Directions:
Preheat oven to 350º
Cake:
Blend sugar and butter. Add other ingredidents as you would any cake, adding the eggs one at a time.
Pour in prepared pans ( I use Bakers Joy). Either two or three 8 inch cake pans.
Cook at 350º for about 25 minutes or until done. Cool
Coconut filling:
This will only be between the layers. Cook in double boiler until thick. Cool and then add the grated coconut.
Icing: Combine sugar, water, and syrup in pan and cook over meduim heat - stirring constantly until it reaches hard boil stage .Wipe any crystals from pouring surface with damp rag. Pour hot syrup in a fine stream over egg whites, beating steadily, add vanilla. Continue beating until the frosting is stiff enough to stand in peaks. Frost tops and sides of cake. |
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Notes: This was always a Swalm favorite. My mother-in-law, Margie Swalm, made this at least twice a year. Once for her oldest son, Terry's birthday ( my husband) and she made it at Christmas. Really good. Was fun learning how to crack a coconut and draining the milk from it.
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