The Best Coconut Cake Recipe (2024)

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What is a secret ingredient for cakes? ›

Mayonnaise: The Hidden Gem in Cake Recipes

Made up of eggs and oil, mayonnaise acts as an emulsifier, adding creaminess and moisture to your cake.

The famous Tom Cruise cake is a one-layer Bundt cake made with coconut cake with white chocolate chunks. The round cake is slathered in white cream cheese frosting and coated with heaps of coconut flakes. The White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake is made by the family-owned Doan's Bakery in Woodland Hills, California.

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If the coconut mixture is too hot it can cause the cake batter not to mix properly and this can lead to a greasier, less risen sponge.

The most crucial tip? Instead of buying an entire box of cake flour, simply incorporate two tablespoons of cornstarch into 3 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour. This blocks the formation of gluten in the flour, which produces a lighter, fluffier cake.

Use Real Butter

It's also made from plant oils, whereas, butter is made from dairy and rich in saturated fats. That fat helps create moisture in our cakes. So when you're at the store, make sure you reach for butter (I always use unsalted), not margarine.

Most cakes will call for a leavening agent like baking powder or baking soda. These create the bubbles you need for the cake to rise. If the flour you use is self-raising, it already has a leavening agent in it. Make sure your butter is room temperature, and beat the butter and sugar together until properly creamed.

There are 5 layers of moist chocolate sponge in our Billionaire Dream Cake, filled with a smooth premium Belgian chocolate buttercream, handmade shortbread pieces and award winning caramel sauce in each layer. It's sweet, it's crunchy, it has chocolate, and it has salted caramel filled pearls on top of each peak.

The cake had layers of white cake with raspberry jam and raspberry frosting as the filling, and was covered with vanilla buttercream. The same cake was also served at JFK's inauguration, along with Ronald Reagan's and George H.W.

For over 30 years, Hansen's Cakes in Los Angeles has been making cakes for the Kardashian-Jenner family — specifically their flower-topped basket weave cake.

Martina says, “Late in the mixing stage, eggs will incorporate better if you lightly beat them before adding to the batter. The finished cake may be slightly shorter than expected, but its flavor and tenderness shouldn't be affected.” For egg-leavened cakes, the eggs are crucial.

Why is my coconut cake dense? ›

Egg Whites: Egg yolks are wonderful for moisture, but they're heavy and weigh down cakes. We use whole eggs in my coconut Easter cake which is much more dense, like a pound cake. To keep this coconut cake light and fluffy, use only egg whites. We'll add the moisture back in with sour cream.

The advice is: For every 150g plain flour, add 2tsp baking powder. Only add baking powder for every 150g - e.g. 150g, 300g, 450g, 600g, etc. If a recipe asks for extra baking powder or bicarbonate of soda in the list of ingredients then leave this out.

Let me introduce you to the cake soak.

When you do this, the cake integrates moisture and flavor, and the sweetened liquid helps preserve the cake's freshness, so a slice can taste just as delicious a couple days after baking.

Since we're talking about cake and not yeast bread, we'll focus on chemical leavening. The reaction of baking soda or baking powder with the liquids in the batter releases carbon dioxide, which forms air bubbles to help your cakes be light and airy. Baking soda and baking powder aren't interchangeable.

Baking soda is used in small amount in making bread and cake. It helps to make these soft and spongy. An aqueous solution of baking soda turns red litmus blue. It is also used in soda acid fire extinguisher.

Combine ingredients as gently as possible without overmixing. Creamed butter and sugar should be pale and fluffy, never yellow and gritty. Butter temperature is a vital detail that should not be overlooked. Don't open the oven door until goods are done baking.