Description
Heavenly coconut pound cake made from scratch with simple ingredients and a coconut glaze.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1½ cups granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter
- 3 eggs (room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon pure coconut extract
- 1/2 cup canned coconut milk (unsweetened)
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1/2 cup shredded coconut flakes
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup whole milk (for glaze)
- pinch of salt (for glaze)
- 1 teaspoon coconut extract (for glaze)
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (for glaze)
- 1 cup shredded coconut flakes (for topping)
Instructions
- Heat oven to 325 F. Grease and flour a 9 x 5 loaf pan. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In another large bowl, cream together sugar and butter on low speed until well combined.
- Mix in eggs one at a time.
- Mix in vanilla extract and coconut extract.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, alternating with the coconut milk and whole milk.
- Mix until batter is fluffy.
- Fold in shredded coconut flakes.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and give the pan a shake to even out the batter.
- Bake for 1 hour and 15-20 minutes. Check at the 60 minute mark and cover with aluminum foil if it’s getting too dark. Continue baking until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean or with moist crumb clinging to it.
- Place on a cooling rack to cool.
- Once pan has cooled, remove cake from pan and allow to finish cooling completely on cooling rack.
- While cake is cooling, make the glaze by combining all glaze ingredients in a bowl until silky.
- Pour half the glaze over cooled cake and top with coconut flakes.
- Once glaze has hardened, drizzle on the remaining glaze and allow to harden.
- Slice and serve.
- Store cake wrapped in plastic wrap in an airtight container.
Notes
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 60-70 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 350
- Sugar: 25g
- Sodium: 200mg
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 10g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 50g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 75mg