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Swans Down Orange Coconut Cake

Here's how you make Swans Down Orange Coconut Cake
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  • Servings: 9
  • Prep: 25m
  • Cook: 35m
    • The following recipe serves 9 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 2 1/2 cups self-rising flour
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup butter (at room temperature)
  • 1 tablespoon grated orange peel (or orange extract)
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
  • FLUFFY ORANGE FROSTING
  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • Salt (1 dash)
  • 1/3 cup water
  • 2 teaspoons corn syrup
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon orange extract
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • CAKE

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 350-degrees Fahrenheit.

  • Step 2: Sift cake flour with sugar.

  • Step 3: In a separate bowl, stir butter and orange rind to soften. Add flour mixture and milk. Mix to dampen flour; beat for 2 minutes at medium speed of an electric mixer or 300 strokes by hand.

  • Step 4: Add eggs and beat one minute longer with mixer or 150 strokes by hand.

  • Step 5: Stir in coconut.

  • Step 6: Pour into grease and floured tube pan.

  • Step 7: Bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until cake tests done.

  • Step 8: Remove from oven and let cool. Remove from pan and invert onto serving platter.

  • Step 9: When cooled completely, frost with Fluffy Orange Frosting.

  • FLUFFY ORANGE FROSTING

  • Step 10: Mix egg whites, sugar, salt, water and corn syrup in top of a double boiler.

  • Step 11: Beat over simmering water (being careful that water doesn't touch bottom of bowl your ingredients are in) an elextric beater or rotary beater. Beat until frosting stands in stiff peaks.

  • Step 12: Remove bowl from water.

  • Step 13: Add vanilla and orange extracts. Tint if desired with food coloring to bring out the "orangie-ness".

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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