My Mama's Coconut Cake

1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
5 eggs
3 cups sifted flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1-1/4 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Beat butter in a bowl until creamy. Add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Blend flour and baking powder in a bowl. Add to batter alternating with milk beating after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Divide batter among 3 greased and floured 9" inch round cake pans. Bake layers at 350° degrees for 25 minutes. Cool cakes in the pans, remove and frost with coconut icing and coconut.

Coconut Icing

1/2 cup butter, softened
1 (3 oz.) package cream cheese
1 (16 oz.) package powdered sugar
1/4 cup cream of coconut milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 package sweetened flaked coconut

Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar beating at low speed until blended. Increase speed to medium and slowly add milk and vanilla beating until smooth. Frost the cake then sprinkle sweetened flaked coconut all over cake or you can fold in the sweetened flaked coconut in the mix if you desire.
Betty in MD


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