Anyone have a great recipe for Coconut Cake?

I've never made one, but I'd check out Ina Garten or Maida Heatter first, among cookbook authors.

Bitch, it better have cream cheese frosting.

When I think of coconut cake, I don't think of cream cheese frosting.

Who knows, maybe it's a good combination. But, IMO, the sourness of the cream cheese can overpower the flavors.

What do you know. This Taste of Home recipe uses cream cheese in the frosting.

My mom's frosting was egg-white based. Sorry, I don't have her recipe & she's deceased.

R3- Come ON!

Best cupcake ever is Georgetown Cupcake's Coconut Cupcake.

Cream Cheese Frosting, baby.

Coconut can be drying so you need coconut milk and sour cream in the batter.

I don't want a Coconut Cake with cream cheese frosting, that sounds wrong on every level known to man.

Williams Sonoma always has good baking recipes.

Great recipe by Stella Parks on Serious Eats. A bit frou-frou, but worth the effort.

Barf city! My dad's favorite. Find some old southern church cookbook recipe. I payed no attention.

ugh! But this looks like it.

I would try a real coconut cream frosting. The variety of coconut products in the stores is exploding. Be sure to buy coconut "cream," not coconut "milk." Look in both the baking area and the Asian food area.

Or you can avoid dry cake by avoiding it in the batter altogether. Instead put the coconut flakes in pastry cream filling inside cake layers. Hawaiian coconut cake recipe.

I would try this Charlie Anderson (New Orleans) coconut cake recipe.

Ina Garten’s recipe is amazing. But if you want to save the time order on Goldbelly from “We Take The Cake” in Ft. Lauderdale. It’s not cheap but worth every penny!

Coconuts were brought to Hawaii by the Polynesians. It was first cultivated in Southeast Asia. I don’t know where people get the idea that only American southerners know how to make a hood coconut cake.

Nobody has said that only American southerners know how to make coconut cake.

Southeast Asian pandan coconut cake.

R17 if you ask for good coconut cake recipes you’ll invariably get people who say go look up any southern recipe. That’s all, I’m saying look beyond that because there are tons of coconut cake and dessert recipes that’s not from the south. I don’t know why you’re getting defensive about a post making this observation.

Wow. What a fucknut this OP is.

Without cream of cheese frosting, you can just eat my pussy, BITCH!

I did, r17.

Momma made a pineapple cake that looked like that and it was great! Juicy icing? I think she poked the cake and drizzled it inside.

That sounds delicious R21. I’ve never made it with pineapples.

For R21 and R22 - Coconut Hummingbird Cake:

Do any of you make a lamb cake for Easter?

This is a yummy cake....

R2- We're not making a CARROT cake.

Coconut cake requires BUTTERCREAM frosting.

I like to put coconut cream on the cake! 💦 🍑

I bought Ina Garten's Comfort Foods Cookbook in January or February at Costco. I just went to see if she has a recipe for Coconut Cake. Unfortunately not. The deserts in her book look largely UNexciting.

R18, that pandan cake is beautiful and intriguing. I lack the fortitude to make the kaya filling though, stirring constantly for 60-70 minutes! There are several big Asian markets in my area, so pretty sure I could find pandan leaves -- and maybe they carry canned kaya (Amazon sells some), though I realize it must not be comparable to the homemade version. Thanks for the inspiration!

I know the point of traditional coconut cake is to have a beautiful, fluffy white confection...but my grandmother always used moist yellow cake instead of white, and did NOT use cream cheese frosting (which I'm not a huge fan of to begin with). I don't eat cream cheese frosting on red velvet cake, either.