Key Lime Coconut Cake

Serves: 2

Lilian Bahringer

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

48

Spice

47

Sweetness

47

Sourness

39

mins

Prep time (avg)

4.6

Difficulty

Ingredients:

1.25 cups

Granulated Sugar

2 large

Egg

3 cup

Whole Milk

Directions:

1

Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle

2

Generously butter a 9- by 2-inch round cake pan and line bottom with a round of parchment paper

3

Toast coconut in a small baking pan in oven, stirring once or twice, until golden, 8 to 12 minutes

4

Cool

5

Leave oven on

6

Beat together butter, granulated sugar, and zest with an electric mixer until fluffy

7

Beat in eggs 1 at a time

8

Stir together flour and 1/2 cup coconut (reserve remainder for topping)

9

Stir together milk and 2 tablespoons lime juice

10

At low speed, mix flour and milk mixtures into egg mixture alternately in batches, beginning and ending with flour

11

Spoon batter into pan and smooth top

12

Bake until golden and a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes

13

Cool to warm, then turn out of pan and discard parchment

14

Whisk together confectioners sugar, remaining 2 tablespoons lime juice, and rum (if using) and pour over cake

15

Sprinkle with remaining coconut

16

Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle

17

Generously butter a 9- by 2-inch round cake pan and line bottom with a round of parchment paper

18

Toast coconut in a small baking pan in oven, stirring once or twice, until golden, 8 to 12 minutes

19

Cool

20

Leave oven on

21

Beat together butter, granulated sugar, and zest with an electric mixer until fluffy

22

Beat in eggs 1 at a time

23

Stir together flour and 1/2 cup coconut (reserve remainder for topping)

24

Stir together milk and 2 tablespoons lime juice

25

At low speed, mix flour and milk mixtures into egg mixture alternately in batches, beginning and ending with flour

26

Spoon batter into pan and smooth top

27

Bake until golden and a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes

28

Cool to warm, then turn out of pan and discard parchment

29

Whisk together confectioners sugar, remaining 2 tablespoons lime juice, and rum (if using) and pour over cake

30

Sprinkle with remaining coconut