Coconut Raspberry Syrup Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 2 - 9″ round cake pans with baking spray. Combine the cake flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Sift these ingredients 3 times. In a mixing bowl, cream butter thoroughly; add sugar gradually. Continue creaming until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolks and beat well. Add flour mixture alternately with the milk, beating well after each addition. Stir in coconut and vanilla. Fold in egg whites gently until well combined. Pour batter into three 8" cake pans or two 9" cake pans. Bake for about 30 minutes, or until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake. If you used 9" cake pans, slice the layers in half to make a 4 layer cake. Raspberry Preserves (at least 1 cup) *choose a good quality Frosting Directions: In a saucepan, use a whisk to blend 1 cup milk into 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour. Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened and bubbly. Reduce heat, and cook and stir two minutes more. Remove from heat. Cover the surface with plastic wrap. Cool to room temperature without stirring. In a medium mixing bowl, beat butter, sugar, and extracts until light and fluffy. Add cooled milk mixture to butter mixture a quarter cup at a time, beating on low-speed after each addition until smooth. Add powdered sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, beating well afterward. Beat until mixture is light and fluffy. Add more powdered sugar if necessary to desired thickness. Slice each layer in half. Spread a thin layer of preserves* between the sliced layers. Alternate preserves and frosting between the layers then frost the top and sides of the cake. Sprinkle coconut on top and sides of the frosted cake. Slice and serve! *Note, on the layers that I placed the preserves, I also added a thin layer of coconut.

Steps:

• Grease and line a 28cm springform cake tin.
• Preheat the oven to 170°C.
• In a mixer, whisk the butter, sugar and lemon zest until pale and light.
• Add the eggs one by one, beating well after each is added.
• Sift the flour and baking powder and add to the butter mixture. Fold in the coconut and the sour cream.
• Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
• Cool the cake completely and then store in an airtight container.
• Raspberry Syrup:.
• Combine the sugar, vanilla bean, lemon juice and water in a heavy-based sauce-pan. Over a high heat, bring to the boil without stirring.
• Continue to boil the sugar till the large bubbles have reduced to tiny bubbles (about 10 minutes). Add the raspberries and stir rapidly until combined. Bring the syrup back to the boil and then simmer for 5 minutes.
• Allow the syrup to cool then pour into an airtight container until ready to use. Pour over the cake at the last minute.

Steps:

• Grease a 20 cm pan, line the base with greaseproof paper.
• Using a beater, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat the eggs one at a time.
• Stir in coconut, sifted flour.
• Spread mixture into prepared pan.
• Bake in a moderate oven of 180°C for 30-40 minutes.
• Pour hot syrup over cake, cool in pan.
• Lemon syrup: Combine all ingredients in saucepan, stir over low heat without boiling until sugar has dissolved.
• Bring to the boil then simmer, uncovered, for 3 minutes.
• Strain syrup.