Old Fashioned Coconut Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 4 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon coconut flavoring
• 1 cup milk
• 3/4 cup butter
• 3 (12 ounce) packages of frozen fresh grated coconut

Recipe

• 1 combine eggs and sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
• 2 add flour and baking powder and beat on low until smooth.
• 3 add coconut flavoring.
• 4 combine milk and butter in a saucepan and heat until butter melts.
• 5 fold into other mixture.
• 6 bake in 2 or 3 greased and floured 8 or 9 inch cake pans at 350°f for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• 7 thaw the packages of coconut.
• 8 squeeze each opened package coconut over the cooled cakes so that the coconut "milk" is sprinkled over the cake and soaks into the cake. ice generously with "seven-minute frosting" (#96449).
• 9 topping the icing with the coconut (in between the layers too!).