Coconut Lemon Layer Cake

With all of this cold, rainy, snowy nonsense – it was 60 degrees yesterday and now today it’s snowing.. WHAT IS THIS WINTER?!?! – I’ve been craving the warm weather like no other. To make myself feel a little better, I made this coconut lemon layer cake when the snow storm hit NJ two weekends back and it was a total hit! I know, a weird thing to make during the snow BUT I did have a mug of hot cocoa along with it.

The coconut cake is so fluffy and the scent of coconut just fills up your entire home – it’s heavenly! I love making homemade lemon curd but you can totally opt to use store-bought here. In my opinion, homemade is always better but to each his own!

The tangy coconut cream cheese frosting is absolutely perfect with this cake. I was afraid that it wouldn’t mesh well with coconut + lemon and would over-power the flavors of the cake but I was TOTALLY wrong! It’s amazing. I originally was going to make plain cream cheese frosting but the addition of the coconut flavoring is perrrrrfect.

INGREDIENTS

• Lemon Curd
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
• 3/4 cup Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 5 large egg yolks (reserve whites for cake)
• 3/4 cup lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon lemon zest
• Pinch salt
• Coconut Cake
• 5 egg whites (reserved from lemon curd)
• 1/2 cup sweetened cream of coconut
• 1 tablespoon coconut flavoring
• 3 cups cake flour*
• 2 cups Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• Pinch salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature & cut into 16 pieces
• 1 cup coconut milk
• 1/2 cup shredded sweetened coconut
• Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting
• 1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 4 cups Dixie Crystals Confectioners Powdered Sugar
• 6 tablespoons cream of coconut
• 1 1/2 teaspoons coconut flavoring (extract)
• Pinch salt or to taste
• 4 cups sweetened shredded coconut, toasted - for garnish

DIRECTIONS
Lemon Curd

1. In a medium-sized bowl,cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about two minutes. Beat in eggs, egg yolks, lemon juice, lemon zest and salt until combined. 
2. Pour mixture into a saucepan and heat on low, stirring frequently until thickened, about 10-15 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
3. ......................

for full instruction please see : www.dixiecrystals.com

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