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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have toasted coconut cake w/ walnuts & cranberries using 20 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Toasted coconut cake w/ walnuts & cranberries:
- Prepare Cake
- Prepare 2 cup Cranberry juice
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup Dried cranberries
- Get 2 2/3 cup All purpose flour
- Make ready 2 1/4 Baking powder
- Take 1/4 tsp Baking soda
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Salt
- Make ready 3/4 cup Unsalted butter, softened
- Take 1 1/3 cup Sugar
- Take 6 Egg whites
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Coconut extract
- Take 3/4 cup Buttermilk
- Make ready Frosting
- Make ready 1 tsp Coconut extract
- Make ready 3/4 cup Unsalted butter, softened
- Take 2 lb Powered sugar
- Prepare 1/3 cup Unsweetened coconut milk
- Get 1 1/2 cup Flaked coconut, toasted
- Prepare 1 cup Walnuts, chopped & toasted
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Steps to make Toasted coconut cake w/ walnuts & cranberries:
- preheat oven to 350 fahrenheit. grease and flour 3 9-inch round cake pans.
- In medium saucepan bring cranberry juice to boil. Add dried cranberries and return to boiling. reduce heat and simmer for 1 minute remove from heat. let stand while preparing cake then drain.
- in medium bowl combine flour ,baking powder ,baking soda and salt. in large bowl combine 3/4 cup butter and granulated sugar. beat with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. With mixer on low, beat in egg whites, vanilla, 1/2 tsp coconut extract. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with buttermilk until combined. Divide evenly among cake pans.
- bake cake layers on 2 racks in center of the oven for 18 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of each layer comes out clean. Cool completely.
- for frosting in a large bowl beat 3/4 cup butter with an electric mixer on medium until smooth. Gradually add 2 cups of the powered sugar, beating well. Slowly beat in coconut milk, and extract, add remaining powder sugar until fluffy.
- Place layer on cake plate. Spread frosting. Sprinkle with cranberries. Place second layer on top of filling, spread more frosting, top with walnuts, and coconut. Top with last cake layer, spread remaining frosting. Top with remaining coconut and walnuts.
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