Coconut Cake with colored coconut decorations for any holiday

MAKE CAKE

Preheat oven to 350. Grease two 9 inche cake pans.

Add the 3 tablespoons shredded coconut to the coconut milk and set aside to soak

Separate egg whites into a medium bowl and egg yolks into a large bowl

Beat egg whites with an electric mixer until stiff, set aside

To the egg yolks add the sugar,salt and melted butter, beat until smooth.

Stir the baking powder into the flour than add this, and the coconut milk with the shredded, coconut milk to the egg yolk mixture, beat until well combined. Fold the egg whites into the egg yolk batter until combined.

Pour batter into prepared pans and bake abput30 to 40 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean cool before frosting

FOR COCONUT BUTTER CREAM FROSTING

Beat butter with an electric mixer until fluffy add sugar and coconut milk and vanilla beat until light and fluffy adding more coconut milk if dry, more sugar if wet.

FROST COOLED CAKE WITH FROSTING

Cover cake with plain sweetened coconut.

MAKE COLORED COCONUT

In 4 small bowls add 1 tablesppn water add drops of food color to each bowl, one drop is enough for primary colors add more to darken or change colors. Add 1 cup coconut to each bowl of color and mix well. Turn out on to plate to dry a bit. Decorate cake with colored coconut.

I also decorated this cake with spring colored peanut M&M's