Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, coconut cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Coconut Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Coconut Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

This Coconut Cake is one of the best cakes you'll ever make! It's light and fluffy, it's brimming with sweet coconut flavor and it's finished with a rich and creamy cream cheese frosting. Coconut cake is a popular dessert in the Southern region of the United States.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have coconut cake using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Coconut Cake:

1. Get 2 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour
2. Take 1 cup Sweetened Shredded Coconut
3. Get 1/2 tsp Salt
4. Get 2 tsp Baking Powder
5. Get 1 cup Unsalted Butter, softened at room temperature
6. Prepare 1/4 cup Coconut Oil
7. Make ready 1 cup Sugar
8. Take 4 large eggs
9. Prepare 2 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
10. Take 1 cup Buttermilk
11. Make ready For the Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting:
12. Make ready 8 oz. Cream Cheese, softened at room temperature
13. Get 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter, softened at room temperature
14. Get 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
15. Make ready 2 cups Powdered Sugar

The cream cheese frosting is sprinkled with shredded coconut. Today I am making an easy and delicious coconut cake that will have people guessing if it's made from scratch. This recipe transforms a boxed cake mix in to. Coconut cake is rich and airy at the same time, making it a perfect dessert for spring.

Instructions to make Coconut Cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and spray a 9 inch spring form pan with non-stick spray and set aside. You can also make this cake in a 10 inch Bundt Cake pan.
2. In a small bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, salt and set aside.
3. In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), beat together the  butter, sugar and coconut oil until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, vanilla extract and continue to mix until all the ingredients are well incorporated.
4. Pour the buttermilk and beat until combined. Slowly add the dry ingredients and mix it all together until it’s incorporated. Gently fold in the shredded coconut.
5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, for about 45 minutes.  Allow the cake to cool completely before frosting.
6. For the frosting, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla extract until well blended. Slowly add powered sugar and continue to mix until smooth.
7. Once the cake has completely cooled, spread the top and the sides of the cake with frosting, and top it with flaked coconut.

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