The Best Coconut Cake Ever

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Are you looking for a recipe for the best coconut cake ever? The search is over! This cake is simply the best recipe I have ever tried.

Coconut is one of those polarizing ingredients. If you love it, you love it a lot. If you don’t, well, you don’t. I love it and am so happy to have found this recipe and am excited to share it with you!

Best Coconut Cake

I love to cook. In fact, I have decided to block off every Wednesday for cooking. And I mean all day. Earlier this year I tried a new recipe called The Best Coconut Cake Ever.

So what makes this the best coconut cake ever?  This cake was easy to make and it tastes absolutely incredible. Coconut cake is the perfect cake for summer, but I also love to serve it during the winter with a drizzle of chocolate sauce. I found this recipe on a great blog called Home Made Interest.

This easy coconut cake is moist and delicious and uses fresh coconut! I absolutely love coconut and this cake is the perfect dessert for coconut lovers. I did taste the batter and it was delicious. And nothing is better than a cream cheese frosting. 
 
Assembling the cake was very easy. The cake was easy to handle and the frosting was really easy because it was so smooth.
 
cakes in the oven
I haven’t made a lot of cakes that are three layers high. I love that this cake looks so tall and great!
 
adding frosting to a cake
I love to decorate cakes even though placing coconut all over a cake does not really constitute decorating. When I was younger, I decorated a lot of cakes. I wasn’t a professional by any means, I was 12, but I decorated a lot of birthday and baby and graduation cakes! I even was hired by my neighbor to help her decorate wedding cakes. Some day I might have to try it again. That would be really fun!
 
icing a coconut cake
Decorating this cake is very easy. All you have to do is “throw” coconut on it. Depending on how much you like coconut, you can also add it to the sides of the cake. 
 
adding coconut to a frosted cake
This recipe is simple and I think you will love it. It is especially good with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. 
 
Yield: 20 servings

The Best Coconut Cake

Best Coconut Cake

This really is the best Coconut Cake Ever!

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Additional Time 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 (15.25 oz) boxes White cake mix
  • 16 ounces Sour cream
  • 1/2 cup Vegetable oil
  • 6 Eggs
  • 15 ounces Cream of coconut (such as Coco López)
  • 16 ounces Cream cheese
  • 4 tablespoons Milk
  • 2 pounds Powdered sugar
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla extract
  • 4 bags Fresh frozen coconut (about 24 oz)

Instructions

  1. Cake
  2. Heat oven to 350°F
  3. Mix cake mix, sour cream, vegetable oil, eggs, and cream of coconut in a large bowl.
  4. Divide cake batter into evenly between three 9” pans that have been greased and floured.
  5. Bake approximately 30 minutes at 350°F or until you can put a toothpick in the center and it comes out clean.
  6. Cool completely.
  7. Frosting
  8. Whisk powdered sugar and cream cheese together in the bowl of your mixer.

    Add vanilla and keep whisking. Add milk as needed to reach a spreadable texture
    (this may not take all 4 tablespoons of milk).
  9. Whisk powdered sugar and cream cheese together in the bowl of your mixer.
  10. Assemble Cake
  11. Place one 9 inch round cake on a cake stand and frost the top of the layer. Place the next cake round on top.
  12. Frost the top of that round and place the final round on top.
  13. Frost the top and sides of the cake.
  14. Press coconut into sides and onto the top of the cake.
  15. The cake really is fabulous. And even though it starts with two boxes of white cake mix, I think this is a great homemade recipe!
















  20. Frosting


  22. 1.    
    Whisk powdered sugar and cream cheese together
    in the bowl of your mixer.


  24. 2.    
    Add vanilla and keep whisking. Add
    milk as needed to reach a spreadable texture (this may not take all 4
    tablespoons of milk).


  26. 3.    
    Whisk powdered sugar and cream
    cheese together in the bowl of your mixer.


  28. Assemble Cake


  30. 1.    
    Place one 9 inch round cake on a
    cake stand and frost the top of the layer. Place the next cake round on top.
    Frost the top of that round and place the final round on top.


  32. 2.    
    Frost the top and sides of the cake.


  34. 3.    
    Press coconut into sides and onto
    the top of the cake.


  36. The
    cake really is fabulous. And even though it starts with two boxes of white cake
    mix, I think this is a great homemade recipe!





© Leslie
 
the best ever coconut cake

As you can see, the cake was popular in our home. And I added coconut to the sides. I told you I love coconut. Especially when it’s on the best coconut cake ever.

coconut cake

The cake really is fabulous. And even though it starts with two boxes of white cake mix, I think this is a great homemade recipe!

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13 Comments

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  2. Could you make cupcakes instead and freeze them after baking to use as needed? What do you think the yield would be and baking time for cupcakes?

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    1. it is the best you can make this cake without using coconut my husband love this cake without coconut. I call it a No Coconut Coconut Cake.

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  9. I made this cake today. I was so bummed. This cake takes much more time than 30 minutes. After 32 min I put a toothpick in one of the cakes and it caused it to cave. These need at least 35 to 40 minutes. I will do something to fix that cave just an FYI.

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    1. I am guessing that our ovens don’t bake the same. The 30 minutes worked for me. It sounds like you need to adjust timing for your oven.

      Reply

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