Chocolate-Coconut Cake
Yield
1 cakePrep
20 minCook
35 minReady
1 hrsTrans-fat Free, High Fiber
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | ounces |
unsweetened chocolate
|
|
| 2 | cups |
cake flour
|
|
| 1 ½ | cups |
sugar
|
|
| 1 ¼ | cups |
buttermilk
|
|
| ½ | cup |
vegetable shortening
|
*
|
| 1 ½ | teaspoons |
baking soda
|
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
salt
|
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
vanilla extract
|
|
| ½ | teaspoon |
baking powder
|
|
| 3 | large |
eggs
|
|
| 1 ½ | cups |
coconut
flaked |
*
|
| 1 | cup |
heavy whipping cream
|
|
| Walnut filling | |||
| 1 | cup |
evaporated milk
|
|
| ½ | cup |
brown sugar
packed |
*
|
| ½ | cup |
butter
|
|
| 2 | ounces |
unsweetened chocolate
|
|
| 3 | each |
egg yolks
|
*
|
| 2 | cups |
walnuts
chopped |
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
vanilla extract
|
|
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 86.7 | ml/g |
unsweetened chocolate
|
|
| 473 | ml |
cake flour
|
|
| 355 | ml |
sugar
|
|
| 296 | ml |
buttermilk
|
|
| 118 | ml |
vegetable shortening
|
*
|
| 7.5 | ml |
baking soda
|
|
| 5 | ml |
salt
|
|
| 5 | ml |
vanilla extract
|
|
| 2.5 | ml |
baking powder
|
|
| 3 | large |
eggs
|
|
| 355 | ml |
coconut
flaked |
*
|
| 237 | ml |
heavy whipping cream
|
|
| Walnut filling | |||
| 237 | ml |
evaporated milk
|
|
| 118 | ml |
brown sugar
packed |
*
|
| 118 | ml |
butter
|
|
| 57.8 | ml/g |
unsweetened chocolate
|
|
| 3 | each |
egg yolks
|
*
|
| 473 | ml |
walnuts
chopped |
|
| 5 | ml |
vanilla extract
|
|
Directions
Preheat oven to 350℉ (180℃). Grease two 9 inch round cake pans; dust bottoms and sides of pans with cocoa.
In heavy 1 qt. saucepan over low heat, melt chocolate.
Into large bowl, measure next 9 ingredients, add chocolate.
With mixer at low speed, beat until well mixed, scraping bowl often.
Increase speed to high; beat 2 min.
Stir in coconut.
Spread batter evenly into pans. Bake 25 to 30 min.
Cool cakes in pans on wire racks 10 min.; invert onto racks to cool completely.
When cakes are cool, prepare filling. In small bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat cream until stiff peaks form.
Cut each cake horizontally into 2 layers; place 1 layer on cake.
