Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, coquito cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Transform coquito - the festive, creamy coconut drink from Puerto Rico - into a luscious layer cake! Top with shredded coconut for a Coquito Cake that's perfect for the holidays - or any special occasion! This sheet cake tastes just like coquito!
Coquito cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Coquito cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook coquito cake using 17 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Coquito cake:
- Get cake
- Prepare 2 cup granulated sugar
- Take 1 cup butter or 2 sticks of butter
- Make ready 4 eggs (yokes and whites separated)
- Prepare 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Get 2 cup self rising flour
- Prepare 1 cup milk
- Get 3/4 cup brandy
- Prepare Coquito
- Take 3 cup Coquito (find recipe in my profile)
- Prepare frosting
- Make ready 1 pints heavy whipping cream
- Get 1/4 cup powdered sugar (more or less depending on how sweet you like your frosting)
- Get 1 tsp coconut extract
- Prepare garnish
- Prepare 1 sprinkle of sweetened shredded coconut
- Get 1 sprinkle of cinnamon
The best coquito i've ever had! I didn't use a double boiler just cooked the beaten yolks and evap. milk on medium heat until it thickened. See more ideas about Coquito recipe, Puerto rican recipes and Food. The finished cheesecake with a bottle of coquito and two glasses of coquito in the background.
Steps to make Coquito cake:
- Preheat oven to to 350° and butter or spray your molds. I use baking spray.
- In a bowl beat egg whites until stiff and set aside
- In another mixing bowl, beat butter sugar, yokes, brandy and vanilla extract until well blended
- Slowly add the flour and milk, alternate little by little while beating
- Once blended, fold egg whites into batter. Very important DO NOT beat or mix the egg whites in. Gently fold them in until blended.
- Put mixture into cake mold and gently pick up and drop the mold on the counter to get excess air out
- Bake for about 25-30 minutes depending on your molds. DO NOT open oven door until about 20 minutes.
- Let cool off until warm enough that you can touch it, but not cold. With a skewer poke holes throughout the cakes
- Slowly pour your coquito over the cake. Make sure to use all three cups. Refrigerate for about 30 minutes
- While your cake is cooling and absorbing the coquito, make your frosting.
- Combine whipping cream, coconut extract and powdered sugar in a bowl and whip until stiff
- Frost the cake and sprinkle shredded coconut and cinnamon on top
- Enjoy
Coquito is essentially a coconut flavored Puerto Rican eggnog and I have fond memories of my While the cake is in the oven, we make the coquito topping, and after the cake has cooled, we pour. Coquito is like eggnog, but better. Served predominately in Puerto Rico, where it originated, it is a rich, milky rum drink sweetened with curls of coconut cream, not to mention both evaporated milk and. Family recipes for coquito are fiercely guarded but we want to share ours with you. Like many versions of coquito, our recipe involves several cans of dairy and coconut products.
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