Coconut Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 (18 1/4 ounce) box butter pecan cake mix or (18 1/4 ounce) box yellow cake mix with pudding
    1 1/4 cups water
    3 eggs
    1/3 cup margarine or 1/3 cup butter, softened
    1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
    1 (8 ounce) can cream of coconut (if not on the shelf look in the liquor section)
    1 cup coconut, for toasting
    1/2 cup coconut
    1/2 cup chopped pecans
    8 ounces Cool Whip, thawed
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 350.
    While oven is preheating put 1 cup coconut in a pie pan and carefully toast in the oven, stirring occasionally.
    (It will burn quickly so watch it carefully.).
    Mix cake mix, eggs, butter and water on medium speed for 2 minutes until mixed well.
    Stir in 1/2 cup toasted coconut.
    Pour into greased 13x9 pan.
    Bake about 33-38 minutes until toothpick inserted in center come out clean.
    Mix condensed milk with cream of coconut.
    Remove cake from oven and poke holes all over cake with the handle of a wooden spoon about 1 inch apart.
    Pour milk/cream of coconut evenly over hot cake.
    Cool completely.
    Frost with cool whip.
    Sprinkle with remaining toasted coconut, coconut and pecans.
    Refrigerate.

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