coconut pecan pound cake
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This cake is really delicious and goes well with a hot cup of coffee. I have actually won two blue ribbons on this cake. Once in junior high at the home ec. fair and then at the East Texas State Fair in Tyler, Texas.
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prep time
10 Min
cook time
1 Hr
method
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yield
12 serving(s)
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup shortening
- 6 - eggs
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1 cup pecans, in pieces
- 1 cup coconut, flaked
- GLAZE
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 teaspoon coconut extract
How To Make coconut pecan pound cake
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Step 1Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour tube pan.
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Step 2Cream the sugar and shortening.
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Step 3Add eggs one at a time mixing completely.
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Step 4Mix salt into the flour and add to the mixture a little at a time. Mix well.
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Step 5Add the vanilla and lemon extract.
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Step 6Mix in the coconut and pecans.
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Step 7Pour batter in pan and bake for 1 hour.
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Step 8About 5-7 minutes before the cake is done, prepare the glaze. Boil all the glaze ingredients for 1 full minute to ensure the sugar has dissolved. Pour it on the cake just as you take out of the oven. Let it soak in and then raise the cake on a trivet to cool.
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