Coconut Cake
Recipe courtesy of “Cookin’ Savvy”
Ingredients
- 1 vanilla or white cake mix
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup coconut Greek yogurt
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 3 eggs
Frosting:
- 1 stick butter softened
- 1 package 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 5 cups powered sugar
- 2-4 cups shredded coconut
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 F.
- In mixing bowl, mix cake mix, flour and sugar. Blend in yogurt, milk, butter and eggs.
- Grease two 8-inch cake pans with butter. Pour half the mixture into each pan and bake 45 minutes. Cool on rack before icing.
- To make frosting: In mixing bowl, mix butter, cream cheese and heavy whipping cream. Slowly blend in powdered sugar.
- Ice cake then pat shredded coconut gently into icing.