On the lookout for your new favourite cake recipe? Make my fabulous Chocolate Coconut Cake! Darkish chocolate cake is slathered with the creamiest coconut frosting and topped with toasted coconut. It’s a very magical mixture. When you love chocolate and coconut, you will need to do this recipe!
I at all times use Hershey’s Particular Darkish cocoa powder. It’s my not-so-secret ingredient. Yow will discover it at most grocery shops and it provides such depth to baked items. It’s good with coconut!
I embellished this as a unadorned cake however be happy to frost the perimeters in the event you desire. I put toasted coconut within the center and on high. It provides such a pleasant nuttiness and crunchy texture to this cake.
Chocolate Coconut Cake
2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup darkish cocoa powder (I exploit Hershey’s Particular Darkish)
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup 1% milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water
Coconut frosting, see under
3/4 cup shredded coconut
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease two 9″ cake pans and coat with cocoa powder.
- Mix sugar, flour, darkish cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt in massive mixing bowl. Add eggs one after the other and blend till integrated. Add milk, oil and vanilla abruptly and beat on medium velocity of mixer about two minutes. Stir within the boiling water. Divide evenly between cake pans.
- Bake 28 to 33 minutes or till wood choose inserted in heart comes out clear. Cool 10 minutes; take away from pans to wire racks. Cool utterly.
- Toast shredded coconut in a nonstick skillet till barely golden.
- Make coconut frosting (see under) and unfold about half on the primary layer. Prime with shredded coconut, add second cake layer, and frost with extra coconut frosting. If desired, reserve some frosting for rosettes across the cake. Sprinkle with extra toasted coconut.
Coconut Frosting
6 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 tsp coconut extract
4 Tbsp milk
1 cup shredded coconut
- Cream collectively 2 cups powdered sugar and 1 stick softened butter with an electrical mixer.
- Beat in two extra cups of powdered sugar and a pair of Tbsp milk, then second stick of butter, remaining two cups of powdered sugar, coconut extract, and final 2 Tbsp milk. Beat till easy. Add extra milk or powdered sugar if wanted for desired consistency.
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