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coconut cake with a cherry on top.

Coconut Cake Recipe

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Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Servings: 15 squares
Author: Lanie Smith

Equipment

  • 1 13 x 9 inch baking dish or two 9-inch cake pans
  • 1 electric mixer (hand or stand)

Ingredients

  • 1 (15.25 oz.) box Duncan Hines White Cake Mix
  • ¾ cup Coco Lopez Cream of Coconut stirred
  • ½ cup canola oil
  • 3 eggs, room temperature
  • 1 cup sour cream

For The Frosting

  • 8 (ounce) pkg. cream cheese, softened
  • 1 stick butter (salted or unsalted)
  • 1 ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 Tablespoon Coco Lopez Cream of Coconut
  • 1 (lb.) powdered sugar, confectioners sugar
  • 1 ½ cups sweetened moist flake shredded coconut more or less to taste

Instructions

To Make The Cake:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Coat inside of baking dish with Pam baking spray. Set aside.
  • In a large bowl, with mixer, add cake mix, cream of coconut, oil, eggs, and sour cream. Beat for two minutes on high speed.
  • Pour batter into pan and bake for appx. 25 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool. Usually takes about 1 hour to completely cool.

To Make The Frosting:

  • In a mixing bowl, with clean mixers, beat the softened cream cheese, softened butter, vanilla, 1 Tbs. Cream of Coconut, and powdered sugar. Beat until fluffy and smooth.
  • Spread over the top of cooled cake. (Or between layers and covering if using cake pans). Sprinkle the coconut on top.

Notes

Optional* Serve with maraschino cherry on top of each serving.