Recipe - Layer Cake With Fresh Coconut Icing

2 One half cup AP softwheat flour
1 tablespoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Salt
1 One half cup Sugar
Three fourths cup Soft butter
2 lg Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 cup Milk

ICING
3 Egg whites, stiffly beaten
2 cup Sugar
Meat of 1 fresh coconut,
ground or grated
1 cup Coconut milk (if needed,
add water to make 1 cup) OR
18 ounce Packaged coconut plus
One fourth cup Milk and
Three fourths cup Water

Cake: Preheat oven to 350F. Grease two 9inch cake pans and dust with
flour. Place circles of wax paper in the bottoms of the pans and grease
and flour them. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together. In a
separate bowl, cream the sugar and butter, then add the eggs and vanilla
and beat well. Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately, starting and
ending with the dry ingredients, and beat until smooth. Pour the batter
into the pans and bake 2025 minutes. Cool on a rack, remove from the pans,
and peel off the wax paper. Icing: Place the beaten egg whites in a
saucepan, and add sugar, coconut and coconut milk. Over medium heat bring
the mixture to a full boil, and boil 45 minutes. Remove from the heat, and
spread on the cake while both the cake and icing are still warm. Makes a
very moist coconut cake, serving 1012.

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