Coconut Cake (No Synthetic Flavors!)

This moist and scrumptious coconut cake recipe is infused with pure taste all through and embellished with large toasted coconut flakes.

At present’s submit is a revamp of one in every of my oldest recipes. All the best way again to 2015! It was a kind of recipes that was good however might have been higher.

My predominant problem with the unique coconut cake recipe was that it used coconut extract. I don’t typically like to make use of flavored extracts in my baking, as I discover them to style synthetic and customarily disagreeable.

Some are higher than others, thoughts you, however I principally stick with vanilla or attempt to infuse the flavors in another means.

Coconut extract, not not like almond extract, could be very straightforward to overdo. It’s robust, typically overpowering, and may make your baked items style such as you’re consuming suntan lotion when you’re not cautious.

All Pure Components

I used to be on a mission to redo this Coconut Cake recipe utilizing coconut in its pure kind. There’s a slew of coconut merchandise on the market, so the chances are infinite.

I’m not kidding once I say I purchased each single coconut product I might discover to check and experiment with. This included the next:

All of those elements (aside from the coconut flakes) have been tremendous straightforward to seek out within the grocery retailer.

For me, the primary three have been discovered within the Ethnic Meals part, the remaining within the baking part. The one factor that was more durable to seek out was the big coconut flakes, which I picked up at Entire Meals.

I didn’t find yourself utilizing parts of the entire coconuts aside from for the pics, however I used to be stunned at how straightforward they have been to crack!

There are a bunch of movies on how to do that, and I like to recommend watching one to see the way it’s completed, however mainly, all you have to do is:

• Poke out a number of of the “eyes” with a screwdriver (I used to be capable of poke by way of with out utilizing a hammer)
• Drain the coconut water right into a bowl
• Hammer across the axis of the coconut whereas turning it, and ultimately a crack will begin to kind (this didn’t take lengthy)
• Hold hammering till the crack is sufficiently big which you can pry the coconut open

Easy methods to Make this Coconut Cake Recipe

For the precise cake recipe, I ended up utilizing the canned coconut milk instead of common milk, and I added medium shredded coconut to the batter.

I’d have most popular to make use of positive shredded coconut, as a result of I don’t love the feel of coconut, however the stuff I had was unsweetened and I needed so as to add a bit extra sweetness to the cake. Both mixture will work although — sweetened/unsweetened, positive/medium/coarse. It’s only a matter of choice!

I didn’t find yourself utilizing the coconut sugar within the ultimate model of the recipe, as a result of it coloured the cake batter an excessive amount of and I needed a pleasant, white/yellow cake.

So you should utilize coconut sugar and it’ll work completely positive, the cake will simply have a barely completely different taste and colour. But it surely’s necessary to notice that coconut sugar doesn’t truly style like coconut in any respect. It’s comprised of the sap of the flower buds of the coconut palms, not the coconut itself. It tastes and appears much like brown sugar.

The coconut milk powder labored extraordinarily properly within the frosting. It added a tremendous taste with out affecting the feel. Should you have been to make use of canned coconut milk as an alternative, you’d have to make use of much more of it for the flavour to come back by way of, and it might make the frosting too tender. I extremely advocate utilizing the milk powder if you’ll find it!

I solely used the coconut milk powder within the frosting, not the cake, however I believe it will be an effective way so as to add extra taste to the cake when you needed to. I’d most likely add a few Tbsp to the dry elements.

This beautiful Coconut Cake is completed off with a easy ornament of some large toasted coconut flakes, and I simply love the look of them. I used to be capable of purchase mine already toasted, however I popped them into the oven for a bit extra to reinforce the colour.

This Coconut Cake recipe has the proper hit of coconut taste all through with out being overpowering or tasting synthetic. Any coconut fan in your life is certain to like it!