MA’S COCONUT CAKE
Pies, Cakes and Desserts
Ingredients
- 1 cake
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups sugar
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 3/4 cup milk
Directions
Beat the butter and sugar till very light and creamy.
Add the well beaten yolk of eggs.
Sift flour twice with salt and baking powder. Add milk a little at a time with flour. Add vanilla. Fold in beaten egg whites.
Bake in moderate oven (350°) in 3 layer pans.
COCONUT FILLING
Peel and grate finely 2 coconuts, reserving 4 tablespoons coconut milk.
Mix other ingredients and boil 1 1/2 minutes. Add coconut. Dribble coconut milk over cakes. Put coconut filling on layers.
Ma Turner’s recipe.
Add the well beaten yolk of eggs.
Sift flour twice with salt and baking powder. Add milk a little at a time with flour. Add vanilla. Fold in beaten egg whites.
Bake in moderate oven (350°) in 3 layer pans.
COCONUT FILLING
Peel and grate finely 2 coconuts, reserving 4 tablespoons coconut milk.
Mix other ingredients and boil 1 1/2 minutes. Add coconut. Dribble coconut milk over cakes. Put coconut filling on layers.
Ma Turner’s recipe.
Source: PDF page 171
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