Easy Coconut Cake

Ingredients

• 1 tsp. coconut flavoring
• 1 cup shredded coconut
• 1 can (17 oz.) grated coconut in extra heavy syrup
• 1/4 cup milk
• Preheat oven per directions on cake mix. Mix cake mix following the directions on the
• box. Stir in coconut flavoring and
• shredded coconut. Bake in loaf pans (2-4
• depending upon size) or 9 x 13 x 2 baking dish until tooth pick inserted in the
• center comes out clean, about 25-30 minutes.
• In a small sauce pan stir together grated coconut and milk. Over med. heat let the mixture barely come to
• a boil. Remove from heat. Spoon evenly
• over hot cake.
• Comments: I love coconut and when I found a can of Conchita
• Grated Coconut on sale at one of my local grocery stores I had to buy it. I had no idea what I would do with it since I
• had not only never tried it but also never seen it before. Well, it makes the best coconut icing you'll
• find. I added the 1/4 cup of milk
• because I wanted it to soak into the cake some and the 'extra heavy syrup' is
• just that - heavy so the milk and heating both thinned it down enough to allow