TOASTED COCONUT POUND CAKE WITH MANGO-LIME SAUCE

Toasted Coconut Pound Cake with Mango-Lime Sauce image

Provided by Martha Stewart

Yield Makes 2 cakes

Number Of Ingredients 12

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1 pound (3 1/4 cups) all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon coarse salt
4 sticks softened unsalted butter, plus more for pans
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
9 large eggs, room-temperature
2 1/3 cups sweetened shredded coconut
1 mango, chopped
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 teaspoon sugar
Pinch of salt
Lime zest and additional diced mango, for garnish

Steps:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter two 5-by-9-inch loaf pans. Combine flour and salt in a bowl.
Cream butter and sugar with a mixer on high speed until pale and fluffy, for 8 minutes. Scrape down sides of bowl. Reduce speed to medium, and add vanilla extract.
Lightly beat eggs, and add to mixer bowl in 4 additions, mixing thoroughly after each and scraping down sides. Reduce speed to low, and add flour mixture in 4 additions, mixing until just incorporated. Fold sweetened shredded coconut into finished batter. Divide batter between pans. Tap on counter to distribute; smooth tops. Before baking, sprinkle additional coconut over each cake; tent with foil.
Bake until a tester inserted into center of each cake comes out clean, about 65 minutes. Let cool in pans on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Remove from pans, and let cool completely on wire rack.
Make mango-lime sauce: Puree chopped mango,lime juice,sugar,and a pinch of saltin a food processor until smooth. Top with diced mangoand lime zest.