Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, coconut cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have coconut cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday using 18 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday:

1. Prepare COCONUT CAKE
2. Get 1 FOR THE COCONUT CAKE
3. Take 6 large eggs
4. Make ready 1 1/2 cup coconut milk
5. Get 3 tbsp sjredded sweetened coconut
6. Prepare 1 cup melted butter
7. Get 1 cup granulated sugar
8. Take 1 tsp 1/8 salt
9. Take 2 cup all-purpose flour
10. Prepare 4 tsp baking powder
11. Get COCONUT BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
12. Make ready 8 oz unsalted butter, at room temperature ( 2 sticks )
13. Take 4 cup confectioners sugar
14. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
15. Take 1/4 cup coconut milk
16. Get COCONUT TOPPING
17. Take 6 cup shredded sweetened coconut
18. Take food coloring, as many or little colors as wanted. I used four colors for this cake as explained in direction step #14

Place an oven rack in the bottom third of the oven and another in the top third of the oven. Stack the final cake layer on top of the first two and cover the cake's top and sides with the frosting. If you can't take a trip to a tropical paradise this spring, we have the next best thing: coconut cake recipes! Perfect for your Easter celebration or a "just because" seasonal sweet, these refreshing treats are just as beautiful as they are delicious.

Steps to make Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday:

1. MAKE CAKE
2. Preheat oven to 350. Grease two 9 inche cake pans.
3. Add the 3 tablespoons shredded coconut to the coconut milk and set aside to soak
4. Separate egg whites into a medium bowl and egg yolks into a large bowl
5. Beat egg whites with an electric mixer until stiff, set aside
6. To the egg yolks add the sugar,salt and melted butter, beat until smooth.
7. Stir the baking powder into the flour than add this, and the coconut milk with the shredded, coconut milk to the egg yolk mixture, beat until well combined. Fold the egg whites into the egg yolk batter until combined.
8. Pour batter into prepared pans and bake abput30 to 40 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean cool before frosting
9. FOR COCONUT BUTTER CREAM FROSTING
10. Beat butter with an electric mixer until fluffy add sugar and coconut milk and vanilla beat until light and fluffy adding more coconut milk if dry, more sugar if wet.
11. FROST COOLED CAKE WITH FROSTING
12. Cover cake with plain sweetened coconut.
13. MAKE COLORED COCONUT
14. In 4 small bowls add 1 tablesppn water add drops of food color to each bowl, one drop is enough for primary colors add more to darken or change colors. Add 1 cup coconut to each bowl of color and mix well. Turn out on to plate to dry a bit. Decorate cake with colored coconut.
15. I also decorated this cake with spring colored peanut M&M's

In a medium bowl combine cake flour, baking powder, and kosher salt; spoon flour mixture onto a square of waxed paper. Dying coconut may be easy to do but the impact it can make is amazing! I grew up with my mom coloring coconut (see the old photo below). It's an inexpensive way of decorating a cake or cupcakes for birthdays and IT'S EDIBLE! Perfect for adding a festive touch Easter, Birthdays and Christmas.

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