Making a Coconut Pound Cake

[kevin313]

We made this last week for a friend's birthday. At this time of year in Michigan, we enjoy a lot of fresh rhubarb and I made a sauce out of it and wanted a cake that would go well. You could use the base recipe and flavor this cake in many different ways, also.

Hans, we thought of you when we were making this pound cake!!

 

[kevin313]

Here's the recipe:

 

[mixguy]

Leavening Agent?

No baking powder in the recipe? Are you using self rising all purpose flour?

The recipe is very much like my coconut macaroon cake only the eggs are separated and the beaten egg whites are folded into the batter. Also I use almond instead of lemon.

 

[henene4]

How to amke a cake!

Sounds like a good all-purpose cake mix. I guess everybody has that one "select flavor as you go" cake.

However, I could not get over that typo in the last paragraph. I love my recipes to be all in one font, and preferably written with a type writer, but me being lazy usually leaves me with a cluttered folder of snippets.

 

[circlew]

Oh, that sounds so good! But I guess I'd better not make one since I'm not supposed to eat much butter or coconut. I'm sure I'd eat the whole thing! Would eat a piece if someone was serving it though.

 

[foraloysius]

Finally got to watching your video. That looks like a great pound cake.

When baking a pound cake my grandmother always started with eggs and sugar, then added melted butter. It's easier when you are using a handmixer. But I'm not sure if that works well with every pound cake.

BTW, have you ever tried the mixing paddle with the scraping rubber attached to it?

 

[mixguy]

Scraper Paddles

I have two KitchenAid mixers. a tilt head 5 qt and a bowl lift 5 qt. and have the flat beater, a Flex edge and a BeaterBlade for both of them. I prefer the BeaterBlade for two reasons: BeaterBlades have two silicone edges allowing for twice as much scraping of the bowl with each rotation of the beater compared to the Flex-edge having silicone on one side and also the curve (spiral) of the Beater Blade forces the mixture to move down into the bowl as the beater spins. The two features make for more efficient mixing when combine with the mixer's planetary motion. There were some other silicone edge flat beaters available but they seem to require more attention the scrape clean of what was mixed or did not look as durable. I am cautious about using the BeaterBlade when making cookies, fearing it could break when mixing a stiff mixture having chopped nuts and/or chocolate chips. I either fold by hand or switch to a regular flat beater to complete the mixing. The Flex Edge is nylon coated metal and the BeaterBlade is made of plastic.

I have seen some other designs of whips but not convinced yet as to if they are worth purchasing.

There are videos comparing these silicon edge beaters to the original and are are will done too

 

[maytagbear]

I mostly make cookies with my K45

and I have had no trouble whatsoever with using the Beater Blade.

Have not tried it with whipped potatoes (high starch potatoes like Russet Burbanks/Idahos) CAN withstand mechanical whipping, it's low starch/"waxy" potatoes that do not come out well in a mixer. I use the wire whip for potatoes, and they always come out well. Start slowly to break them up, and gradually increase the speed. Add the melted butter first, before adding the hot milk or cream.

Lawrence/Maytagbear