Grandma Yearwoods Coconut Cake With Coconut Lemon Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• For the cake: Grease and flour a 9-inch tube cake pan. Cream the butter and sugar until light and smooth. Add the eggs and vanilla extract, beating well. Mix in the vanilla wafer crumbs, coconut and pecans. Pour into the pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto a rack.
• For the glaze: Mix the sugar, cornstarch, salt, lemon zest and juice, 1 1/2 cups of water and coconut in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring until thickened, for about 15 minutes. Let cool slightly, then using a toothpick, poke several holes in the top of the cake and drizzle the glaze over the cake.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300. Grease and flour 3 9" cake pans. Sift together flour and salt.
• Cream shortening and sugar until fluffy.
• Beat in eggs one at a time until combined.
• Add buttermilk, soda, and flavoring.
• Add flour mixture gradually until combined. This is similar to a pound cake batter.
• Pour into cake pans at bake for 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean.
• For Icing:.
• Cook sugar, milk, coconut, marshmallows over a double boiler until smooth. Note: as it is hard to find unsweeted coconut, I've used sweeted and reduced the sugar to 1/2 Cup. Fold in almond extract. Icing will be fairly runny--it's supposed to seep into the cake and run off the sides. If you want it to be thicker, add more marshmallows.
• Ice layers and top of cake while still hot. I poke holes in the layers with a toothpick so that the icing seeps down into the cake.
• Cover and refrigerate overnight. No cheating! You MUST serve it after it's been refrigerated, and serve it cold - it's best that way.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Butter a 9x13 baking pan and set aside.
• In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the coconut and egg yolks.
• Combine the baking powder and flour in a small bowl.
• Add to egg mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the milk.
• Pour into the prepared baking pan and bake for 25 minutes.
• Test with a toothpick and if done remove from oven.
• Set on a wire rack to cool.
• Combine the lemon juice, sugar, cornstarch, eggs and butter in a heavy double broiler.
• Heat and stir for 5 minutes until thickened.
• Pour onto warm cake.
• Sprinkle 1/2 of the coconut on top of the filling.
• Beat the whites in a medium bowl until soft peaks form.
• Gradually beat in sugar until dissolved.
• Spread over coconut layer.
• Sprinkle second amount of coconut over top.
• Bake for 12 minutes or until the coconut and whites are lightly browned.
• Cool on the wire rack for 15 minutes.
• Place in the fridge for 1 hour or better yet all day or overnight.
• Cut when cooled.