Best Toasted Coconut Macadamia Pound Cake Recipes

TOASTED COCONUT POUND CAKE RECIPE - (4.4/5)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a loaf pan. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. In a large mixing bowl with paddle attachment, beat butter and granulated sugar on medium-high until light and fluffy, scraping down bowl as needed. Add vanilla, then eggs, one at a time, beating well and scraping down bowl. With mixer on low, add flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with two 1/2-cup additions buttermilk, and beat until combined. With a rubber spatula, fold in 1 1/4 cups coconut. Transfer batter to pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 60 minutes. Let cool in pan the remove cake from pan and let cool completely on rack. Whisk together confectioners' sugar and remaining 2 tablespoons buttermilk. Drizzle over cake and sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup coconut.

TOASTED COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour a loaf pan.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
• In a large mixing bowl with paddle attachment, beat butter and granulated sugar on medium-high until light and fluffy, scraping down bowl as needed.
• Add vanilla, then eggs, one at a time, beating well and scraping down bowl.
• With mixer on low, add flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with two 1/2-cup additions buttermilk, and beat until combined.
• With a rubber spatula, fold in 1 1/4 cups coconut.
• Transfer batter to pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 60 minutes.
• Let cool in pan the remove cake from pan and let cool completely on rack.
• Whisk together confectioners' sugar and remaining 2 tablespoons buttermilk. Drizzle over cake and sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup coconut.

TOASTED COCONUT MACADAMIA POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Make pound cake:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. and butter and flour a 10-inch (3 quart) bundt pan.
• Spread coconut in a shallow baking pan and toast in middle of oven, stirring occasionally and watching carefully to avoid burning, until golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer coconut to a bowl and cool. Spread nuts in pan and toast in middle of oven until pale golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool nuts and chop coarse.
• In a bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy and beat in cream cheese. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, and beat in vanilla. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into bowl and beat just until combined well. Stir in coconut and chopped nuts.
• Spread batter evenly in pan and bake in middle of oven 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until tester comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on a rack 5 minutes and invert onto rack.
• Make glaze:
• In a small heavy saucepan bring water with sugar to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Stir in rum.
• Brush hot glaze evenly over outside of warm cake until absorbed. Cool cake completely.