Coconut Snack Cake
Submitted by elmojabr on July 13, 2005 at 2:49 pm

DESCRIPTION
coconut snack cake

SUMMARY
Yield 0 File under cakes

INSTRUCTIONS
2 cups AP flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup butter (softened)
1 1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp coconut extract
3 eggs
1 cup coconut milk
1 1/2 cups shredded coconut
1/2 cup shredded coconut

pre-heat oven to 350*
grease a 9x9 cake pan
sift together first three ingredients
cream butter and sugar together 'til light and fluffy
add vanilla then and eggs one at a time
add flour and milk alternetly starting and ending with flour
fold in 1 1/12 cups coconut
sprinkle remaining coconut on top
bake for 45-50 min. cool in pan 1 hr.

I put my coconut in the food processer for a few minutes to make the pieces smaller. This cake bakes up tall enough to split and fill if you'd like. I think the pineapple curd Bettina posted would be yummy in this cake.