50+ Friends Club Cookbook -- Cakes and Frostings -- Vestal's Coconut Cake

50+ Friends Club Cookbook -- Cakes and Frostings -- Vestal's Coconut Cake

50+ Friends Club Cookbook
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Vestal's Coconut Cake

From the Kitchen of: Boomer

Cake
2	cups	whipping cream
2	cups	sugar
2	cups	self-rising flour
4		eggs (separate & whip whites)
2	teaspoon	vanilla
1	can	coconut milk

Mix well and bake for 45 minutes (round cake), or 55 minutes (oblong cake) at 350°.
(May use a cake mix as a substitute)
Punch holes in the cake and pour the coconut milk across the top.

Seven Minute Icing
3		unbeaten egg whites
1 1/2	cups	sugar
1/4	teaspoon	cream of tartar
1/3	cup	white corn syrup
1	teaspoon	vanilla
1	package	frozen coconut

Mix eggwhites, sugar, cream of tartar, corn syrup in the top of a double boiler.
Place icing over rapidly boiling water. Beat for seven minutes, or until thoroughly blended. Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
Layer the icing on top of the cake, and then sprinkle your coconut on top and on the sides.
(A small package of frozen coconut is all that will be needed for this)