Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon coconut cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lemon coconut cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Lemon coconut cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lemon coconut cake using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon coconut cake:
- Get 2.5 c cake and pastry flour
- Prepare 1 TBS baking powder
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 11/4 c sugar
- Prepare 3/4 c butter
- Get 1 c buttermilk
- Make ready 1/4 c lemon juice
- Prepare Zest of a whole lemon
- Make ready 2 TBS vegetable oil
- Take 4 eggs
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Prepare 1.5 tsp lemon essence
- Get For decorating
- Take 1 c butter
- Prepare 2 1/2 c powdered sugar
- Take 2 tsp lemon extract
- Prepare Juice of half lemon
- Make ready Sweetened dessicated coconut flakes
I follow the recipe exactly, and observe the baking time carefully until the cake is just done. Lemon coconut cake features deliciously moist coconut cake layers, homemade lemon curd, toasted coconut and cream cheese frosting. To make the best possible lemon coconut cake, make sure to read my notes in the post and below before beginning. The cake is completely from scratch and has a mix of lemon and coconut flavoring.
Steps to make Lemon coconut cake:
- Preheat oven if using one, to 180°c. Butter and flour two tins
- If you don't have cake and pastry flour, measure two and half cups all purpose flour then remove 5TBS of the flour replacing it with cornstarch. (For every cup remove 2 TBS)
- Sift flour, baking powder, salt. Whisk in sugar and lemon zest. Cut butter into small pieces and whisk in flour till crumbly
- In a separate bowl mix milk, eggs, oil, essence, lemon juice. Whisk well
- Add the liquid to the flour mixture. Whisk first at low speed then increase speed till well combined. Divide batter equally and bake for 30-40mins. Check with a skewer for readiness. Allow the cakes to cool at least 10mins in pan then take out and allow to cool completely
- Sift icing sugar into a bowl. Add butter and whisk together till pale
- Add essence and lemon juice. Whisk well. Use this to ice the cooled cake and top with coconut flakes. I only decorated one
Then you top it with homemade cream cheese frosting with lemon zest and shredded coconut for the finishing touch. My mouth is watering just thinking about this cake again! Lemon Coconut Naked Cake with Whipped Vanilla Buttercream. The pretty "garden" cake that tastes amazing too. Three soft, perfectly sweet, very moist, extra coconutty, lemon scented cake layers.
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