{"id":7540,"date":"2014-01-19T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=7540"},"modified":"2014-08-08T21:35:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T01:35:02","slug":"coconut-sheet-cake-with-cream-cheese-frosting-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=7540","title":{"rendered":"Coconut sheet cake with cream cheese frosting- recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coconut sheet cake with cream cheese frosting- a moist dense cake.<\/p><\/div>\n

I love coconut cake.<\/p>\n

I love chocolate and yellow cakes, as well.<\/p>\n

I love cake, period.<\/p>\n

But coconut cake has such a clean edge to it- the flavor is permeated within the cake itself and then you have a bonus of toasted coconut on top, mmm!<\/p>\n

But it is hard to find a homemade cake that has the right flavor and mouth feel.<\/p>\n

I like the Sara Lee frozen coconut cake- but I wanted to make my own so I went to the recipe index on the internet and combined and played with the ingredients and amounts and came up with this winner!!!<\/p>\n

Notice that there is no leavening agent in the ingredients- the eggs are used to raise\u00a0 the crumb – and this is a rather dense cake- more like a pound cake than a sponge cake.<\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/p>\n

1 cup soft butter<\/p>\n

6 ounces soft cream cheese<\/p>\n

6 eggs, separated<\/p>\n

1\u00a0 tsp vanilla extract<\/p>\n

2 cups plain or A\/P flour<\/p>\n

1\/3 cup coconut flour (if you can’t find flour, put some in the food processor until it is quite fine<\/p>\n

1\/4 cup coconut milk<\/p>\n

Method:<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.\u00a0 Grease a 9x 13 in. cake pan.<\/p>\n

Cream sugar into cream cheese and butter.\u00a0 Add yolks, one at a time, until batter is<\/p>\n

smooth and light.\u00a0 Whip egg whites until soft peaks form and set aside.<\/p>\n

Add vanilla and mix well,\u00a0 Add coconut milk, mix- then add plain and coconut flour and<\/p>\n

mix well.\u00a0 Fold egg whites into mixture – carefully- you want it well mixed but still with lots of air in the batter.\u00a0 Gently scoop batter into greased pan and bake in pre-heated oven for 35 to 40 minutes.\u00a0 The cake should raise slightly whilst baking and will be a little browned on the edges – check doneness by inserting a clean knife or toothpick in center- when it comes out clean, the cake is done.Allow to cool completely and then ice with cream cheese icing.<\/p>\n

I used 1\/2 cup butter<\/p>\n

6 ounces cream cheese<\/p>\n

1 tsp vanilla<\/p>\n

2 cups 10x or confectioner’s sugar<\/p>\n

1\/2 cup coconut flour<\/p>\n

and beat it with a hand mixer until it was creamy<\/p>\n

.Then topped the frosted cake with 1\/2 cup toasted coconut.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I think the icing was a little too thick, but Frank likes more icing than I do.\u00a0 Half the recipe if your tastes run along with mine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love coconut cake. I love chocolate and yellow cakes, as well. I love cake, period. But coconut cake has such a clean edge to it- the flavor is permeated within the cake itself and then you have a bonus … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","category-stepsonthejourney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7540"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7629,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions\/7629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}