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Coconut Layer Cake With Passion Fruit Filling Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Midgelet / All my dishes 6 months, 3 weeks ago From Food and Wine. I adapted recipe to make a 4 layer cake using 2 nine inch cake pans. I also used regular coconut as I could not find the large coconut curls. This one one of several delcious desserts I made for my birthday party . It was way ove... More Prep:60m Cook:45m Servings:12	Midgelet
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Ingredients

4 1/4 cups flour

2 1/4 cups sugar

1 Tbs plus 1 1/2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp salt

2 sticks unsalted butter, softened

1 1/4 cups unsweetened coconut milk

3/4 cup water

2 tsp pure vanilla

6 egg whites

Filling:

3/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup cornstarch

1 cup pasion fruit nectar or puree

4 egg yolks

1 vanilla bean, seeded and scraped

Topping

2 cups large dried unsweetned coconut flakes, toasted

2 cups heavy cream

2 !/2 Tbs sugar

1 stick unsalted butter cut into tablespoons

Directions

Make cake: Use an electric mixer

Mix dry ingrdients in large bowl including sugar.

Mix in the butter, coconut milk, water and vanilla until combined at low speed.

Scrape down bowl and beat at high speed for 2 minutes

In another bowl beat whites till soft peaks

Fold half whites into creamed mixture and then add remaining whites until no streaks appear.

Divide itno 3 greased and papered and greased 8 inch pans.

Bake in a 350F oven about 45 minutes or tested done.

Cool in pans 15 mins and remove and cool completely., about 2 hours.

For filling: In saucepan whisk sugar and ciornstarch then add passion fruit nectar, yolk and vanilla seed and cook and stir over medium heat until thick.

Remove from heat and stir in butter, a bit at a time until incorporated.

Place filling in a glass bowl, cover with plastic and chill till set about 2 hours

Assemble cake:

cut each layer in half to make 6 layers

Place one layer on platter and spread with 6 tbs of filling.

repeat till ending with a layer of cake.

Make topping:

Beat cream with sugar till soft peaks.

Spread over entire cake.

Coat whipped cream with the toasted coconut.

Chill one hour before serving

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Comments

minitindel 6 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Ohhhh how beautiful it is wow!!!!!! love it yummy....
thank you so much
well happy late birthday !!!
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momo_55grandma 6 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Awsome beautiful cake great post high5 thanks

famjila 5 months, 4 weeks ago said:
It looks so yummy. It's no my To Do List!

kendi25 1 month, 4 weeks ago said:
Hi, I wanted to try this recipe, but for the filling there are no yolks listed and the instructions says add yolks. How many yolks are needed? Thanks a lot

midgelet 1 month, 4 weeks ago said:
Yikes, I forgot to add 4 egg yolks to the filling ingrdients and it is now corrected thanks for pointing this out!

kendi25 1 month, 4 weeks ago said:
Thank you sooooo much

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