Dessert Recipes - Prize Coconut Cake Recipe

Ingredients 

• 1 3/4 cups sifted cake flour

• 2 1/4 tsp Calumet Baking Powder

• 3/4 tsp salt

• 1/2 cup butter or margarine

• 1 cup plus 2 Tbs sugar

• 2 eggs

• 2/3 cup milk

• 1 tsp vanilla

• 2/3 cup Baker's Cookie or Angel Flake Coconut

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Method:

1. Measure sifted flour, baking powd(3r and salt; sift together. Cream butter.

2. Gradually add sugar; cream until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

3. Alternately add flour mixture and milk, beating after each addition until smooth. Stir in vanilla and coconut. Pour batter into two 8-inch layer pans, lined on bottoms with paper.

4. Bake in moderate oven (350°F) 30-35 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes; then remove from pans and finish cooling on racks. Frost with Golden Coconut Frosting.