Coconut Pecan Pound Cake

This moist and rich Coconut Pecan Pound Cake has fantastic flavor and is so simple to make! It has a fine crumb and the perfect balance of coconut and pecans. We hope that you enjoy the recipe!

Why we Love It

There are so many reasons to love this Coconut Pecan Cake! Here are just a few:

• SO delicious and simple to make.
• We love the combination of coconut and pecans (just as with our Italian Cream Cake, German Chocolate Cake, Vanilla Wafer Cake and Coconut Hummingbird Cake)
• Perfect pound cake for holidays, potlucks, birthdays, or just because!

How to Make Coconut Pecan Pound Cake

You can find the full, printable recipe at the bottom of this post. Here is a quick look at our steps!

• Grease and flour a tube pan or bundt pan that has a baking capacity of at least 8 cups. (See notes in the Recipe Card for more details.) Preheat the oven to 325℉.
• Sprinkle ½ cup of chopped pecans into the bottom of your prepared pan. This step is optional but we love the flavor and bit of crunch that it adds to the top of the cake.

• In a separate bowl whisk the cake flour, baking powder, and salt to combine, set aside for later.
• Using an electric mixer (paddle attachment if using a stand mixer), cream the butter on medium speed until smooth. Next, gradually add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy for 3 to 5 minutes.
• Add the eggs one at a time, blending after each until the yolk is incorporated.
• Add the vanilla extract and coconut extract to the 1 ¼ cup of buttermilk.
• With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk to the butter/sugar/egg mixture in the mixing bowl. Begin and end with the dry ingredients. I do three additions of dry, alternating with two additions of wet. Mix on low speed just until incorporated.

• Gently fold in the ¾ cup coconut and 1 cup of crushed pecan pieces.

• Scoop batter into the prepared bundt pan.

• Bake at 325℉ for approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes. The cake is done when the cake springs back when the top is lightly touched and a toothpick comes out clean (or with just a few moist crumbs attached). *Baking times may vary. Start checking as the timer approaches 1 hour. (See notes for details on pan size/type)

• Allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes on a cooling rack before turning out.

More Pound Cakes to Try

We've made so many pound cake recipes over the years! Some of our most popular are our classic pound cake, buttermilk pound cake, lemon pound cake

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Make sure to also check out our full collection of cake recipes, including cake recipes from scratch, cake mix recipes, cupcakes, bundt cakes and pound cakes! We hope that you find something that you'd like to try.

We also have a huge collection of cake decorating tutorials!