Created by ForeverMama on January 4, 2015
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.
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".