Texas Size Orange Coconut Pecan Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla. Combine flour and salt; stir into creamed mixture just until combined. Stir in coconut and pecans. , Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan; spread evenly. Bake at 325° for 60-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F. In a mixer, cream butter, cream cheese, and sugar until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time. Then add flour one cup at a time. Last, add vanilla flavoring. Grease and flour tube/bundt pan and pour in batter. Once the batter has been poured in, sprinkle pecans and brown sugar on top (a cup or little more of each). Lightly press into the batter. Bake at 300°F for 1 hour and 15 minutes. (You may want to tent the top with foil to keep the nuts from scorching.) Then, increase the temperature to 325°F and bake for an additional 30 minutes. Test the cake with a fork or wooden skewer to check for doneness. The utensil should come out dry and clean (no batter). Bake 5 more minutes if needed. Remove from the oven and allow a few minutes to cool before removing from pan. When you invert onto a plate, you may lose a few nuts, but most should bake into the top layer of crust. Turn the cake onto another plate so that the nuts are on top. Drizzle cake with a jar of caramel ice cream topping. Heat from the cake will make the caramel melt over the pecans. Enjoy!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt or tube pan. Sprinkle pecans on bottom of pan; set aside. Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda into a medium bowl; set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream butter and white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Add flour mixture alternately with sour cream. Pour batter over pecans in prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 75 to 90 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 20 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
• To prepare the glaze: In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, orange juice and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Drizzle over cake while still warm.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour tube pan.
• 2. Cream the sugar and shortening.
• 3. Add eggs one at a time mixing completely.
• 4. Mix salt into the flour and add to the mixture a little at a time. Mix well.
• 5. Add the vanilla and lemon extract.
• 6. Mix in the coconut and pecans.
• 7. Pour batter in pan and bake for 1 hour.
• 8. About 5-7 minutes before the cake is done, prepare the glaze. Boil all the glaze ingredients for 1 full minute to ensure the sugar has dissolved. Pour it on the cake just as you take out of the oven. Let it soak in and then raise the cake on a trivet to cool.

Steps:

• 1. Cream butter, Crisco, and sugar.
• 2. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
• 3. Add coconut flavoring.
• 4. Sift flour and add baking powder.
• 5. Alternate adding flour and milk to sugar mixture.
• 6. Add coconut.
• 7. Spray tube pan with Crisco non-stick spray with flour. Bake at 350 for 1 hr to 1 hr 15 minutes.
• 8. Cool in pan for 10 minutes turn on a cooling rack.
• 9. Note: You can make a glaze of powdered sugar, milk and a small amount of coconut flavoring. Also, if you want to add toasted coconut, put shredded coconut on a baking sheet and toast in the oven for about 5 minutes.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat the eggs, 2 cups sugar, oil and 2 teaspoons extract. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to egg mixture alternately with buttermilk just until moistened. stir in coconut and pecans. , Spoon into a greased 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 350° for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean., Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine the water, butter and remaining sugar. Bring to a boil; cook for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat; add remaining extract. , Slowly pour hot syrup over hot cake. Cool in pan for 4 hours before removing to a serving plate. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two 9-inch round cake pans and line the bottom of each with parchment paper. Grease the parchment paper, then dust with flour, tapping out excess.
• Finely grind the coconut in a food processor, then transfer to a bowl. Add pecans to the food processor, along with 2 tablespoons sugar, and finely grind them.
• In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in coconut and pecans.
• In the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, cream of coconut and the remaining sugar on high speed until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition and scraping down the bowl as necessary, then beat in coconut extract.
• Add the flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the coconut milk, starting and ending with flour mixture. Divide batter between the pans and smooth the top of each with a spatula. Bake until cakes are golden and a tester comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Let cakes cool in the pans on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Run a knife around the edge of each cake, invert onto rack, and remove the parchment. Let cool completely.
• Meanwhile, make the filling: Place egg yolks in a small heatproof bowl and set aside. In a saucepan, combine condensed milk, butter and cream of coconut and cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until hot, about 4 minutes. Whisk 1/3 of the hot milk into the egg yolks. Transfer egg mixture to the saucepan of milk and whisk constantly over medium-low heat until mixture has the consistency of pudding, about 4 minutes. Do not let the custard get too thick. Transfer to a bowl and stir in the shredded coconut. Let cool completely.
• Make the simple syrup: In a saucepan, heat sugar and 1/2 cup water, stirring occasionally, until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat.
• Assemble the layer cake in a pan: Cut each cake in half horizontally. Place one layer in the bottom of a 9-inch cake pan, moisten the top with 2 to 3 tablespoons simple syrup and spread 1/2 cup of the coconut filling in a thin, even layer with an offset spatula. Repeat to make 2 more layers of cake and filling, then place the last layer on top. Refrigerate cake for about 1 hour. To unmold, run a spatula around the edges, invert a cake plate over the top, and flip the cake over onto the plate.
• Make the icing: Whip the cream with the confectioners' sugar and coconut extract until stiff peaks form. Spread on the top and sides of the cake and sprinkle with toasted coconut. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Butter and flour 2 loaf pans.
• Cream butter and 2 cups of sugar in a bowl.
• Mix in eggs, one at a time; add zest.
• Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.
• In another bowl mix 1/4 cup orange juice, buttermilk and vanilla.
• Add flour and buttermilk mixture aternately to the batter, beginning and ending with flour.
• Divide between 2 pans and smooth the tops.
• Bake for 45 minutes or until tester comes out clean.
• Cool for 10 minutes.
• Make syrup while cake is baking.
• Syrup consists of remaining 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup orange juice.
• Cooks these two together over low heat till the sugar is desolved.
• Spoon over cakes and then allow them to cool completely.
• You may glaze these cakes (after cooling) with a simple glaze but I don't usually.

Steps:

• Combine dry ingredients.
• Add liquid ingredients.
• Beat to blend well.
• Fold in pecans and coconut.
• Pour batter into greased and floured bundt pan.
• Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 30 minutes or until tests done.
• Let cake cool 10 minutes before removing from pan.
• Pour glaze over warm cake.

Steps:

• Using an electric mixer, beat the butter in a mixing bowl on medium speed for about 2 minutes or until soft and creamy.
• Gradually add in the sugar; beat at medium speed 5-7 minutes.
• Add in eggs, one at a time, beating just until the yellow disappears.
• Add in rinds and orange extract, stir to combine.
• In a small bowl, add nuts and 1/4 cup flour; stir to combine; set aside.
• Add remaining flour, baking powder, and salt to a bowl; stir to combine.
• Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with milk; begin and end with flour mixture.
• Mix on low speed just until blended after each addition.
• Add in pecans; stir to combine.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until pick comes out clean.
• Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10-15 minutes.
• Turn out of pan and let cool completely on wire rack.