Swans Down Orange Coconut Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 1/2 cups self rising flour
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3/4 cup butter (at room temperature)
• 1 tablespoon grated orange peel (or orange extract)
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 3/4 cup milk
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
• 2 egg whites
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 dash salt
• 1/3 cup water
• 2 teaspoons corn syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon orange extract

Recipe

• 1 cake:.
• 2 preheat oven to 350-degrees f --
• 3 sift cake flour with sugar.
• 4 in a separate bowl, stir butter and orange rind to soften. add flour mixture and milk. mix to dampen flour; beat for 2 minutes at medium speed of an electric mixer or 300 strokes by hand.
• 5 add eggs and beat one minute longer with mixer or 150 strokes by hand.
• 6 stir in coconut.
• 7 pour into grease and floured tube pan.
• 8 bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until cake tests done.
• 9 remove from oven and let cool. remove from pan and invert onto serving platter.
• 10 when cooled completely, frost with fluffy orange frosting.
• 11 fluffy orange frosting:.
• 12 mix egg whites, sugar, salt, water and corn syrup in top of a double boiler.
• 13 beat over simmering water (being careful that water doesn't touch bottom of bowl your ingredients are in) an elextric beater or rotary beater. beat until frosting stands in stiff peaks.
• 14 remove bowl from water.
• 15 add vanilla and orange extracts. tint if desired with food coloring to bring out the "orangie-ness".