Royal Coconut Cake With Blueberry Filling |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 20 Minutes |
Ready In: 20 Minutes Servings: 20 |
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An exqusite moist coconut cake with a blueberry cream cheese filling and a rich cream cheese frosting. I made this layer cake ( I adapted from two separate recipes ) for my daughter's 30th birthday. I also garnished with fresh flowers. Read more . It was beautiful, moist and delicious and judging from the looks on the guests faces, it was indeed a special cake! We just stuck in one good luck candle. Elegant was what my daughter wanted, elegant is what she got! So rich, small pieces were cut Ingredients:
cake |
3 cups flour |
1 tbs. baking powder |
14/ tsp salt |
1 1/2 cups sugar |
1 cup milk |
4 eggs |
1 1/2 stick butter divided |
1 cup vanilla syrup ( separate recipe ) |
1 recipe bluebery cocnut filling ( separate recipe ) |
1 recipe cream cheese frosting ( separate recipe ) |
vanilla syrup |
1 cup sugar |
1 cup water |
1/2 tsp vanilla pure extract |
coconut bluberry filling |
1/2 cup cream cheese |
1 tbs butter |
1/2 cup blueberry syrup |
1/4 tsp lemon zest |
1 tbs jarred blueberries , drained well |
1 cup coconut |
cream cheese frosting |
6 oz cream cheese |
1 stick butter softened |
1/4 tsp salt |
4 cups powder sugar |
3 tbs milk or cream |
1 tbs vanlla extract |
garnish: fresh flowers ( edible ) as desired |
pipe on tinted cream cheese frosting that has beeen beaten with some heavy cream |
Directions:
1. Cake:
2. Butter and flour 3, 9 inch cake pans.
3. Line with wax paper.
4. Sift dry ingredients except sugar
5. Beat eggs and sugar till well blended and then beat in butter, milk and vanilla.
6. Blend in flour mixture on low speed until well blended.
7. Divide batter in pans.
8. Bake 350 F about 20 minutes or tested done.
9. Cool in pans.
10. Then using pastry brush, brush cooled layers with vanilla syrup.
11. Let cake layers soak up all syrup.
12. For vanilla syrup bring all to a boil for 3 minutes and then remove and cool completely.
13. For filling:
14. Mix all until well combined and chill well.
15. To assemble cake:
16. Fill all layers and even spread top with the coconut blueberry filling.
17. At this point chill well or freeze if desired.
18. For frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter until smooth.
19. Beat in salt and sugar and milk and vanilla until silky and smoth
20. Carefully frost cake.
21. Garnish as desired
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