Coconut Cake With Chocolate Chunks And Coconut Drizzle Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Toast Coconut:.
• Start by spreading coconut on a microwave-safe plate. Microwave the coconut in 30-second bursts, gently stirring to redistribute each time. When the coconut is as brown as you like - stop. It's done. It took me 7 1/2 minutes to get to this point, but depends on the wattage of your microwave.
• Cake:.
• Beat together sugar, oil, eggs, and coconut extract until well mixed.
• In a separate bowl, mix together buttermilk, baking powder, and baking soda.
• Beat together the buttermilk mixture into the sugar, oil, and egg mixture until well blended.
• Gradually beat the flour mixture into the wet mixture until well mixed.
• Fold in the coconut and almonds.
• Pour into a greased baking pan and bake for about 30-45 minutes or when a toothpick is inserted into the center comes out clean. (I used a greased bundt pan).
• Combine drizzle ingredients in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat until all the ingredients are incorporated.
• Once the bread comes out of the oven, poke holes all over the bread and immediately pour drizzle over the bread and let soak inches.
• Once the cake has cooled, pour on the glaze and sprinkle with toasted coconut.

Steps:

• CAKE.
• Preheat oven to 350°F Generously butter 9-inch-diameter cake pan with 2-inch-high sides; dust pan with flour, shaking out excess. Sift 1 3/4 cups flour, baking powder, and sea salt into medium bowl. Stir in unsweetened shredded coconut and set aside. Using electric mixer, beat sugar, butter, and orange peel in large bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Add flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with coconut milk in 2 additions, beating just until blended after each addition. Fold in half of bittersweet chocolate pieces. Spread batter evenly in prepared cake pan. Sprinkle remaining chocolate pieces over batter, then sprinkle with sweetened flaked coconut.
• Bake cake until golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean, tenting with sheet of foil if coconut atop cake is browning too quickly, 60 to 70 minutes. Transfer cake to rack and cool in pan 45 minutes.
• COCONUT DRIZZLE.
• Whisk powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons unsweetened coconut milk, and vanilla in small bowl to blend well, adding more coconut milk by 1/2 teaspoonfuls until mixture is thin enough to drizzle over cake.
• Carefully run small knife around sides of cake to loosen. Invert cake onto platter, then carefully invert again onto another platter, coconut side up. Using small spoon, drizzle powdered sugar mixture decoratively over cake. Cool cake completely on platter. DO AHEAD Cake can be made up to 1 day ahead. Cover cake and let stand at room temperature.
• Cut cake into wedges and serve with vanilla ice cream.