John and Lois' Coconut pound cake

Cake

• 2 cups cake flour

• ½ tsp salt

• 1 ½ tsp baking powder

• 1 cup vegetable oil

• 2 cups sugar

• 5 eggs

• ¼ cup milk

• 1 tsp vanilla flavoring

• 1 tsp coconut flavoring

• 1 cup shredded coconut (reserve 1/4 c for topping)

Sift flour, salt and baking powder.

Preheat oven to 325 deg. F.

In large bowl cream oil and sugar, add one egg at a time beat until smooth.

Add sifted ingredients to the mixture a small amount at a time.

Add milk vanilla, coconut flavoring and coconut.

Bake in a greased and floured bundt pan for 1 hour.

Make the glaze now while the cake is baking.

Glaze

• 1 cup sugar

• ½ cup milk

• 4 tbsp butter

• 1 tsp coconut flavoring

Combine over medium heat, boil for 3 minutes, let cool.

Remove cake from oven. Poke holes in the exposed top of the cake and spoon in about 1/3 of the glaze.

Flip the cake over on a plate and spoon the remaining glaze over the top of the cake.

Top with remaining shredded coconut.

Urban Cowgill 2008