Coconut cream pie…..CAKE!

If you like cake or maybe coconut or cream cheese try this cake!!!! It was honestly amazing! I made this cake when my friend was over this past weekend and it was awesome! Now if you do make this cake  make sure you serve it after it spends the night in the fridge, its amazing cold :).  I found this recipe in Bon Appetit magazine, this cake is from a resteraunt called “Hominy Grill” and they call it “Classic coconut cake” but I thought coconut cream pie cake was a more appropriate name since it describes the cake perfectly. Now this is a dense dense cake, all you need is one slice..you do not go back for seconds with this one..the cake is like a meal! It took me a while to realize this cake was like coconut creme pie though..but if after reading this you try the recipe and finish the cake and let it cool over night…and then the next day you take a bit you’ll realize what i mean right away.

k so for this recipe you will need:

for the cake:

• nonstick vegetable spray
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2  cups sweetened flaked coconut
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 5 egg yolks
• 4 eggs whites

for the frosting

• 31/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1  8 ounce package of cream cheese
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• extra coconut to cover the beautiful cake

Cake:

K, so to start preheat the oven to 350 and coat two 9 inch cake pans with nonstick spray..set aside. Mix the flour and coconut in a medium bowl set aside. Whisk buttermilk and baking soda in a small bowl(..k little insider help..don’t use a coffee cup or something that can barely hold a cup..the buttermilk mixture expands so use a big enough bowl so you don’t have to dirty up 3 dishes for this one step haha) set aside.

I took this after it started growing so before and

and after

Beat sugar, and butter in a large bowl until light and fluffy…2 minutes..add the egg yolks and beat to blend. Add the flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with buttermilk mixture in 2 additions..beating just to blend.

  Using clean dry beaters, beat egg whites and 1/4 teaspoon salt in another large bowl until peaks form. Add 1/3 of egg white mixture to batter and fold in just to blend. Fold in remaining egg white mixture in two additions.

before adding the egg whites

 

batter with the egg whites added

Divide the batter between the two cake pans and bake the cakes for about 35  minutes. When the cakes are done remove them from the pans and let them cool on racks.

Frosting:

Use an electric mixer and beat sugar, cream cheese, butter and vanilla in a large bowl until blended. When the cake has cooled start frosting and when the cake is completely covered with this deliciousness start topping with more coconut…I sprinkled coconut all over, even on the sides and it came out perfect 🙂 .

finished 🙂

yummy

I hope you decide to give this cake a try..its worth it.

Hope you all have an awesome Friday and amazing weekend!!! 🙂