Best Cindys Coconut Pound Cake Recipes

CINDY'S COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Grease and flour a tube pan. (Don't miss and spots or you won't get the cake out without breaking it.
• Beat 5 eggs.
• Add 2 cups sugar and beat well.
• add 1 cup canola oil.
• Sift 2 cups flour, 1 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt. Add to egg mixture and blend well.
• Add to above mixture 1 cup coconut, 1/2 cup milk, 1 tsp vanilla, 1 tsp coconut extract.
• Mix well and pour into pan.
• Bake at 350F for 55 to 60 minutes. Let cook while sauce is cooling.
• For the sauce mix well, boil 1 minute and pour slowly over cake. Let cool in pan.

EASY COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Beat in flour just until combined; fold in 1/2 cup coconut., Coat an 8-in. fluted tube pan with cooking spray; dust with flour. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake at 325° for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar and additional coconut if desired.

COCONUT POUND CAKE (USING COCONUT MILK)

Steps:

• Preheat over to 325 degrees.
• Greese and flour 1 loaf pan, set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, mix softened butter and sugar together until fluffy.
• In a seperate small bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder, and shredded coconut.
• Add eggs, one at a time into butter/sugar mixture. Mix well.
• Add vanilla, then add coconut milk, alternating with flour/coconut mixture (this will prevent lumps).
• Pour batter into loaf pan and bake for 1 - 1 1/4 hours.
• If you wish to use the glaze, heat a sauce pan to medium high heat, add butter and brown sugar. Stirring constantly, once brown sugar has dissolved add the toasted coconut, vanilla and if desired 2 TBSP coconut milk. Remove from heat and allow to slightly cool. Stir just before pouring over cooled cake.

COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease a bundt cake pan or a 10-inch fluted tube pan.
• Cream together butter and sugar in a mixing bowl.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each one.
• In a separate bowl, sift together flour and baking soda.
• Add sour cream, Coconut extract, and Rum extract to the sugar/butter/egg mixture and cream well.
• Add flour and baking soda and mix into a batter.
• Stir flaked coconut into the batter.
• Spoon batter into the greased pan.
• Bake at 350 for 1 1/4 hours or until toothpich inserted in center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and allow to cool 15 minutes before removing from pan.
• While cake is cooling, make the syrup by combining the water and sugar in a small saucepan.
• Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Remove from heat and stir in Almond extract.
• Before removing cake from pan, brush about 1/3 of the warm syrup onto the cake bottom.
• Invert cake onto a serving plate and brush on the remaining syrup.
• Allow the cake to completely cool, then serve.
• Store leftovers in an air-tight container.

GLAZED COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Cream sugar and Crisco.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each.
• Add Flavoring.
• Sift dry ingredients together and add alternating with the milk--begin and end with the flour.
• Bake in greased and floured tube pan for 1 hour and 20 minutes. You might want to start checking on this after 1 hour - sometimes my cake is finished about then.
• When cake is almost finished, start making the glaze.
• To make the Glaze: Put all ingredients for the glaze in pot and cook over medium heat.
• Let mixture boil for 5 minutes. It will bubble so you will need to watch it carefully so it won't boil over onto your stove - trust me, you don't want that to happen.
• When removed from the oven, pour glaze over the cake while it is still in the pan and let sit at least 8 hours or overnight.
• To remove from the pan, place the cake in the oven at 250°F for 5 minutes or long enough to loosen to the sugar glaze surrounding the cake.
• The cake should slide out of the tube pan easily - if it does not, put it back into the oven for a few more minutes and then try again.

COCONUT CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and cream cheese until well blended. Add sugar, and beat until light and fluffy. Blend in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the coconut extract. Mix in flour and baking powder until just moistened, then stir in coconut. Spoon batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted into the cake comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before inverting onto a cooling rack.