Coconut Louisiana Crunch Cake Recipes

LOUISIANA CRUNCH CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Thoroughly grease and dust your bundt pan.
• Sift your dry ingredients together and keep on the side in a separate bowl. Beat your butter by itself for a good five minutes to get a super thick and fluffy texture. Add in your sugar and cream on medium speed for another two minutes.
• One at a time, add your eggs, allowing each to fully incorporate before adding the next. Gently mix through the sour cream and vanilla. Add your sifted dry ingredients in four to five additions, alternating with the buttermilk, and gently fold through to incorporate.
• Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup sugar over the base of your pan, followed by the coconut flakes. Pour your batter into the bundt pan, scraping your bowl clean.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes, checking with a wooden skewer after 50 minutes. (If your skewer is wet, bake until it comes out clean, checking every five minutes.)
• Leave your cake to cool for 10 minutes before turning out.

COCONUT CRUNCH CAKE

Steps:

• Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 10-inch springform pan. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In another bowl, stir cream of coconut and vanilla.
• Beat butter and coconut oil on medium-high until smooth. Slowly add sugar; beat until pale and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Reduce speed to medium; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each and scraping down bowl as needed. With mixer on low, add flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with 2 batches of cream-of-coconut mixture. Beat until just combined.
• Topping: Whisk egg whites and salt with a mixer until thick and frothy, about 1 minute. Stir in milk and vanilla. Fold in coconut.
• Spread batter in pan. Dollop topping over batter; carefully spread in an even layer. Bake on a rimmed baking sheet until a toothpick comes out with just a few moist crumbs, about 1 hour (tent with foil if browning too quickly). Let cool completely; remove from pan. Cut into wedges, drizzle with sauce, and serve with extra sauce on the side.

COCONUT LOUISIANA CRUNCH CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350º Fahrenheit.
• Whisk together the cake flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
• In another bowl, cream the butter until it is creamy and almost white in appearance.
• Add in the sugar. Beat an additional 2 minutes, scraping the sides of the bowl as needed.
• Beat in the eggs, one at a time, mixing in each egg completely before adding in another.
• Mix in the sour cream and extracts.
• Add the flour alternately with the buttermilk, mixing gently (or on low speed) just until combined. Do not overmix or the cake will not be soft.
• Grease with shortening and dust with flour a 12 cup bundt cake pan (or use our cake release).
• Sprinkle 1/4 cup sugar into the bottom of the pan. Shake the pan slightly so the sugar coats the sides of the pan as well as the bottom.
• Sprinkle shredded coconut evenly in the bottom of the pan.
• Pour the batter into the pan and use a spatula to make sure is is even.
• Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Allow the cake to cool for just 5 minutes in the pan, then loosen the edges and turn it out onto a cake plate to cool completely.
• In a small bowl, whisk together the sugar, melted butter, and extracts.
• Add heavy cream, one tablespoon at a time, until it is the consistency you'd like.
• Drizzle the glaze over the cooled cake. If the cake still warm, the glaze will melt and run thin. It's a matter of preference as far as how you want it to look.
• Note: This makes a lot of glaze. If you'd like less glaze, make 1/2 a recipe. This will save calories as well.

THE BEST LOUISIANA CRUNCH CAKE EVER

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 Degrees Fahrenheit.
• 2. Sift together cake flour, salt, baking powder and soda. Set aside.
• 3. In a large separate bowl, beat butter until very fluffy (approx. 5 minuets) then add 2 cups of sugar. Continue to beat until light and fluffy (approx. 2 more minutes).
• 4. Beat in eggs, one at a time, making sure that each egg is thoroughly blended before adding the next egg.
• 5. Mix in sour cream and vanilla extract.
• 6. Blend in some of the dry ingredients followed by some of the buttermilk in alternates. This is a way to ensure that the ingredients are being thoroughly blended together -- For example; add dry mixture followed by buttermilk, dry mixture, buttermilk dry mixture -- so on and so forth -- DO NOT OVER BEAT OTHERWISE CAKE WILL BECOME HARD AS A BRICK ONCE FINISHED BAKING!
• 7. Grease a bundt cake pan. I used a non stick angle food spring formed tube pan. If you do not have a non stick pan, be sure to grease your pan and dust with flour! Add in 1/4 cup of sugar to the bottom of pan and about 3 inches up the sides, tapping the pan to ensure even distribution. Leave excess sugar in pan. Sprinkle coconut flakes to the bottom of the pan. Scrape batter into the bundt pan and spread evenly.
• 8. Bake for about 50 minutes to an hour or until a wooden skewer inserted comes out clean (if it comes out wet, bake another 10 minutes or so, if it comes out crumbly, you over baked the cake).
• 9. Let cake cool for about 10 minutes, then carefully remove from pan, making sure that the sugary coconut side is faced upward. Use a knife to scrape the sides if cake becomes stuck. (this step is very important otherwise your cake will continue to bake and will become very dry and completely stuck in the pan).
• 10. Drizzle glaze over the crunchy top portion of cake. Please use my Vanilla Almond Glaze recipe to complete this cake!