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Moist coconut pound cake on a cake pedestal.
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4.43 from 88 votes

Coconut Pound Cake

This moist Coconut Pound Cake is easy to make and tastes amazing!
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: cake
Servings: 15

Ingredients

For the Cake

  • 3 sticks unsalted butter, softened (339g)
  • 3 cups sugar (600g)
  • 5 large eggs, room temperature (If in a hurry, place in a bowl of warm water for five minutes.
  • 3 cups all purpose flour (375g)
  • ½ teaspoon salt (3g)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder (4g)
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract (2g)
  • 1 ½ teaspoon coconut extract (6g)
  • 1 cup milk (242g)
  • One 6 ounce package (170g) frozen grated coconut, thawed. (You can also use packaged sweetened shredded coconut (2 cups) we have tested with Bakers angel flake coconut with good results)

For the Coconut Glaze

  • 2 cups confectioners sugar measure then sift
  • 2-3 tablespoons milk start with 2, increase a needed for desired consistency.
  • 1 teaspoon coconut extract

Instructions

  • Lower the oven rack to the next to lowest position.
  • Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a 10 cup bundt pan or tube pan. 
  • In a separate bowl, add the flour, salt and baking powder and whisk to blend.  Set aside.
  • Mix the butter until smooth, gradually add the sugar and mix on medium speed 3 to 5 minutes  or until the mixture is lightened in color and fluffy.
  • Add the eggs one at a time beating after each until the yellow of the yolk disappears. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl several times.
  • Add the vanilla and coconut extracts to the 1 cup of milk.
  • Add the flour mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.  After each addition, mix at low speed  until blended.
  • Stir in the thawed coconut.
  • Spoon batter into greased and floured bundt or 10 inch tube pan.  The oven temperature is 325 degrees F. 
  •  Our cake baked for 1 hour, 30 minutes. Baking times may vary depending on your pan, oven, etc. It's best to peek in at least by the 1 hour, 10 minute mark to be on the safe side. Cover loosely with aluminum foil if it becomes too brown.
  • The cake is done when a wooden skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean or with just a few crumbs attached.  Let cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes then remove from  pan. 

Coconut Glaze

  • Combine all ingredients
  • Load into a piping bag with the tip snipped away and drizzle onto your cake (or you can drizzle by the spoonful).
  • Optional: Sprinkle coconut over the top for added decoration (I used sweetened, flaked coconut for the top).

Notes

This recipe makes 8 cups of batter.
You can also use sweetened flaked coconut if you do not have frozen coconut. We have used Bakers angel flake coconut with good results.