Coconut Cake Recipe

I don't usually do much cooking and baking but I made this coconut cake today and I thought that I would just throw this recipe out there in case anyone wanted to try it.  This is such a nice, moist cake that is basically foolproof and is so easy to make.

What you will need...

cake

125 grams of butter

1/2 tsp of coconut essence 

1 cup of castor sugar 

2 eggs

1/2 cup of coconut

1 and 1/2 cups of self-raising flour

300 grams of sour cream

1/3 cup of milk

frosting

2 cups of icing sugar

1 and 1/3 cups coconut

2 egg whites, lightly beaten

Pink food colouring

Now to make the cake...

Grease a deep 23cm round cake tin and line with grease paper.  Cream butter, essence and sugar in a small bowl with an electric beater until light and fluffy.  Then beat in eggs one at a time and beat until combined.  Transfer mixture into a large bowl.  Stir in half the coconut and sifted flour with half the sour cream and milk, then stir in the remaining ingredients until smooth.  Pour into pan and bake in a moderate oven (I usually use 160 degrees celsius in a fan-forced oven) for about one hour and until knife or skewer comes out clean.  Stand for five minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.

For the frosting, combine sifted icing sugar in a bowl with coconut and egg whites and mix well.  Tint pink with a little food colouring and spread over the cake (this is much easier if you run hot water on your knife before spreading!).

And then you're done!