Macedonian Coconut Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 8 eggs, separated
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons ouzo
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup flaked coconut
• 3 1/2 cups water
• 1/2 ounce ouzo
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Recipe

• 1 grease and flour a 15 x 10 x 2-inch sheet cake pan or 10-inch bundt pan.
• 2 in large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar with an electric mixer on high speed.
• 3 beat in egg yolks.
• 4 combine dry ingredients (flour through baking soda).
• 5 combine wet ingredients (milk through vanilla).
• 6 on low speed alternately add dry and wet ingredients to batter.
• 7 stir in coconut.
• 8 in a separate bowl, beat egg whites until stiff but not dry and gently fold into batter just until mixed.
• 9 pour into pan.
• 10 bake at 350° 1-1¼ hours until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• 11 start cake cooling and make syrup:.
• 12 combine water through 3 cups sugar in a saucepan, bring to a boil—stirring until sugar dissolves—and let boil 5 minutes.
• 13 remove syrup from heat and stir in lemon juice.
• 14 pour syrup over cake and let cool completely.