This easy coconut cake recipe gives moist, fluffy, coconut sponge cake that is intensely flavoured and irrestibly yummy. It's made with simple ingredients like flour, butter, dessicated coconut and few other ingredients.If you're looking for a simple homemade coconut cake recipe that is easy anyone can bake it, here is the one.
Make sure all of your ingredients are at room temperature then prepare the cake pans by rubbing with butter and lining with baking paper/parchment paper. Set pans aside.
In a bowl add the flour, baking powder and dessicated coconut then mix together. Set aside.
In another mixing bowl, add in butter and sugar then use electric hand or stand mixer to mix till batter is light, fluffy and turns pale.
Break eggs in a seperate bowl one at a time (i like to do this so incase there’s any bad egg in the batch, you wouldn’t have ruined your batter). Add coconut milk to the eggs and whisk.
Pour the whisked eggs in the butter and sugar mixture and mix with the mixer for few minutes.
Add in the flour/dessicated coconut mixture. Mix for few minutes till all ingredients well incorporated.
Divide cake batter into the prepared cake pans. Put in preheated oven and bake at temperature of 170C (150C fan) for 40 minutes or till cake tester when inserted comes out clean.
Turn cake onto cooling rack and leave to cool.
HOW TO MAKE COCONUT BUTTERCREAM
Put butter in a mixing bowl and mix with electric mixer for about 5 minutes.
Add in sifted icing sugar and coconut extract then mix till light and fluffy.
Use to fill and decorate cooled coconut cake or store in the fridge (for up to 3 days) or freezer (up to 3 months) till ready to use.
HOW TO DECORATE COCONUT CAKE
Scoop some buttercream on one of the cakes and spread out then place the other cake on top.
Using a spatula, cover the cakes with the buttercream ensuring all parts are covered.
Cover decorated cake with dessicated coconut.
Cut, serve and enjoy.
Notes
Bring ingredients to room temperature.
Unless otherwise stated, weigh ingredients with measuring scale rather than using measuring cups.
Break eggs in a separate bowl one at a time.
Don’t overmix batter once the flour has gone in or you might end up with dense cake.
If using all-purpose flour (plain flour) instead of self-raising flour, add 2 teaspoon baking powder to the 315g plain flour. You still have to add ½ teaspoon baking powder in the ingredient list.
Use Canned coconut milk, not coconut milk in carton.