Fresh Coconut Cake With Icing

Total Time: 1 hr 21 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 36 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (she noted real)
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 2/3 cups cake flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup coconut milk
• 1/2 cup milk
• 4 egg whites
• 2 egg whites
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 6 tablespoons water, cold
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 pinch cream of tartar
• coconut, freshly grated

Recipe

• 1 cake:.
• 2 preheat oven to 350.
• 3 cream butter and sugar. beat egg yolks in one at a time. add vanilla.
• 4 sift cake flour and re-sift with baking powder and alt.
• 5 combine milks.
• 6 add sifted ingredients to butter mixture in 3 parts, alternately with milks.
• 7 beat egg whites stiff. fold mix in by hand.
• 8 pour into three greased 9 inch cake pans.
• 9 bake 30 minutes.
• 10 icing:.
• 11 combine all ingredients, except vanilla and coconut in top of a double boiler. blend well. then, place over rapidly boiling water and beat constantly with rotary beater for 6 minutes.
• 12 reove from fire and add vanilla.
• 13 spread sparingly between layers and sprinkle with fresh coconut.
• 14 secure layers with toothpicks.
• 15 ice whole cake and garnish with coconut.