Easy Easter Speckled Coconut Cake - Wesson

Easy Easter Speckled Coconut Cake - Wesson

Prep Time

20 minutes

Cook Time

50 minutes

Total Time

1 hours 50 minutes

Yields

9

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F and oil and flour a 9” x 9” square cake pan.
  2. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl, then stir in coconut.
  3. In another bowl, whisk Wesson Vegetable Oil, sugar, eggs, milk, and vanilla.
  4. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and stir until combined.
  5. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake 40 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
  6. Let cake cool 10 minutes, remove from pan, and transfer to a cake rack to finish cooling.
  7. Heat cream to a simmer and pour over powdered sugar, whisking until dissolved.
  8. Whisk in vanilla and coconut extracts, strain through a fine strainer, and cool completely.
  9. Beat butter in a stand mixer until light and fluffy, scraping down sides as needed.
  10. Slowly add cooled sugar mixture and beat 8–10 minutes until smooth.
  11. Add a few drops of food color at a time until desired color is reached.
  12. Level top of cake if desired and spread icing over top (and sides if desired).
  13. Refrigerate cake 30 minutes until icing is firm.
  14. Mix cocoa powder with vanilla or rum extract until smooth.
  15. Use a small food-safe brush to flick chocolate mixture onto cake to create speckles.
  16. Refrigerate 10–20 minutes to firm speckles, then decorate with toasted coconut flakes and mini eggs as desired.

Ingredients

  • 3 1/4 cups All-purpose flour
  • 4 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 2 cups Coconut, dried and sweetened
  • 1 cup Wesson Vegetable Oil
  • 1 cup Granulated sugar
  • 8 Eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 cup Milk
  • 2 tsp Pure vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup Cream, 35%
  • 1 1/4 cups Powdered sugar, sifted
  • 2 tsp Pure vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp Coconut extract
  • 1 cup Butter, unsalted
  • Robins egg or light blue food color, as desired
  • 1 tbsp Cocoa powder
  • 1 tbsp Pure vanilla extract or rum extract
  • Coconut flakes, toasted, as desired
  • Mini eggs, as desired