Coconut Cake

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This is my go to recipe both for coconut and vanilla cake. The flavor is beautiful and so is the texture. I like that it's a little more on the dense side. It's perfect for wedding cakes or shaped cakes which I make a lot of. I don't change a single thing about it! Also makes great cupcakes.

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I was lucky to have been able to read the reviews and made adjustments based on the reviews, as I have a problem oven. I decreased the sugar by 1/2 c as advised, used cake flour, added 1/2 c of liquid, using coconut milk instead of milk, and it was fabulous. Also, I have had all sorts of problems with my oven, that with the help of these reviews feel I will better manage, and is why I was able to be successful with this recipe. thanks to all the reviewers who explained how ovens vary! Also the frosting was great- I only had one more stick of butter, so I used it with the pound of cream cheese, pound of confectioners sugar and 1 t. of vanilla, and it was great as well. This really was magnificent. Thanks to Ina- it was gorgeous! and thanks to the reviewers, as I have been super perplexed about how to manage my oven...

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Have made this cake many times and it has always gotten great reviews. However, the last time I made it, I felt it was dry and couldn't figure out why except that I was using an unfamiliar oven.
I made it again but I reduced the oven temp to 325o and only baked it for 35 minutes. Think this did the trick.

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Absolutely delectable. I read other comments about the heaviness of the cake, and took advice from another reviewer - using an "extra moist" vanilla cake mix and adding the vanilla, almond extract and coconut to the mix. I made the frosting exactly as directed - and it was the most delicious, moist, light, flavorful cake I've ever tasted! My "super fit - never eat baked goods" friends and family couldn't stop eating this cake! We finished the ENTIRE cake in one evening! Highly recommend using the cake mix & doctoring it as I did. Honestly, it takes a fraction of the time of making it from scratch - and it is beyond unbelievable!

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This cake was extremely dense and dry. I made it with my mother, who is a very experienced baker, and we were both extremely disappointed. It really makes me wonder how these recipes are tested/and/or how accurate the recipes are. I just tried another recipe for coconut cake tonight and I am hoping it is much better.

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I made this cake for my husbands birthday and we were so disappointed!! It was so dry we could not eat it. I never made it before and never will again. I have made other Ina recipes and they were great. As others have stated, I too am not a novice baker. My "reasoning" for a disaster of a cake is not that I don't know how to bake a cake - I've done it over 30 years to rave reviews!!! Seems a lot of reviews "tweaked" the recipe which leads me to believe there is something wrong with this recipe. I too know my oven (which is electric and I took it out after only 35 minutes when it was very browned.

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took a long time to make and then it rose so much in the oven that the batter spilled out all over the oven and will be a mess to clean up and lost an hour of my time and a pretty costly cake as well......why didn't recipe say to have tall 9in pans????????????

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This recipe is wonderful! The cake was delicious and not to mention moist! I will be making it again! Thanks Ina!

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This cake is a trick! I followed the cooking instructions EXACTLY. I am by no means a novice cook so I know that something is wrong with this recipe.I made the batter and I was concerned because I saw that the batter was not as wet as I expected it to be. Since this was my first time using this recipe I decided not tamper with the ingredients. I cooked the cake layers and in the beginning everything was fine. The cake layers came out appearing to be fluffy. I made the icing, which was phenomenal might I add, and began to ice and stack the layers. I sat the cake in the fridge and the next day I took it out and even let it sit for a while so it wasn't too cold. To my surprise the cake was DRY. I have never baked a dry cake before and I could not understand why it happened. Unless someone has a solution to this problem, I do NOT suggest baking this cake. It can be pricy and the end product will more than likely be a disappointment.

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This was an excellent recipe. I would make it again---the only change I made was that I toasted the coconut so that the texture would be different on the icing.

I noted in some reviews---folks complained about the dryness of the cake...I KNOW my oven and I know that parts of it are hotter than other parts. I think knowing one's oven is imperative. I also checked the cake pans at 45 minutes then watched until the cakes were done. Nothing burned.

I plan to make this cake in the form of cupcakes---with the icing---love the icing!

Perhaps some of the negative reviews were written by novices---because the reasoning/logic seemed to be indicative of errors that beginners make.