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Easy Coconut Pound Cake Recipe

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“This cake is easy to make and is always a big hit,” writes Lisa Varner from Charleston, South Carolina. “I like to serve it with ice cream for a double-dose treat!”

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Easy Coconut Pound Cake Recipe

Prep: 20 min. Bake: 55 min. + cooling

Yield: 6 Servings

20 55 75

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter, softened
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
1-1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup flaked coconut
Confectioners' sugar and additional coconut, optional

Directions

In a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Beat in flour just until combined; fold in coconut.
Coat an 8-in. fluted tube pan with cooking spray; dust with flour. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake at 325° for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar and additional coconut if desired. Yield: 6 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 slice (calculated without optional ingredients) equals 650 calories, 35 g fat (22 g saturated fat), 187 mg cholesterol, 273 mg sodium, 78 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 8 g protein.

Originally published as Coconut Pound Cake in Cooking for 2 Winter 2009, p63

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Reviewed on Feb. 20, 2012 by Sprucetree18

<p>I actually doubled this recipe but still put it in one large bundt pan, because this is a pound cake and does not really rise the batter all fit well; however, it required about 1 hr 20 min to bake all the way through. This was moist and delicious. To bump up the coconut flavour even further and finish the cake off properly I drizzled a simple coconut glaze over it, made from 1 c icing sugar, 1/4 t coconut extract, and a few T of milk until the glaze is the pouring consistency you want...</p>

Reviewed on Jul. 21, 2011 by beekates

I make this cake all the time. It is awesome and so easy. I leave the coconut out most of the time just because my family does not like coconut but it is delicious either way!

Reviewed on Aug. 26, 2009 by sjtvice

Have made this cake twice. Doubled the recipe both times and gave one to my neighbor the first time and the second time I made individual bundt cakes and gave to several people. Was a big success! I did make two changes. I changed the vanilla to coconut extract and add a glaze made with powdered sugar, coconut extract and water. YUMMY!

Reviewed on Apr. 15, 2009 by cantorcarol

Great! Everyone, including my "picky husband" loved it. CJG in Florence,SC