Coconut Mini Layer Cake

Ingredients:

for the cake:

1/3 loving cup sugar
1/4 loving cup butter, at room temperature
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 loving cup kokosnoot milk
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 loving cup flour
pinch of salt

for the icing:

4 oz brick cream cheese, at room temperature
3/4 loving cup confectioners sugar
1-2 teaspoons nighttime rum or vanilla extract
1 loving cup sweetened, flaked coconut

Directions:

for the cake:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat butter together with carbohydrate until low-cal together with fluffy. Beat inward egg together with vanilla.

In a divide modest bowl, mix dry out ingredients. Add the dry out ingredients together with kokosnoot milk alternately, outset together with ending alongside the kokosnoot milk. Pour evenly into 2 buttered together with floured four-inch pans. Bake for 15-20 mins until golden chocolate-brown together with a toothpick comes out clean.

Let cool five mins inward the pan. Remove from pan together with allow cool completely on a rack. If the tops are rattling domed, land the transcend off 1 to instruct inward apartment together with purpose it to brand the bottom layer of the cake.

for the icing:

In a large bowl, crunch together the vanilla/rum, cream cheese, together with confectioners carbohydrate until smooth. Add to a greater extent than confectioners carbohydrate inward 2 tablespoon increments if you lot desire or need a stiffer or sweeter frosting. Take out 1/3 of the frosting together with mix alongside 1/3 of the kokosnoot flakes. Spread transcend of 1 cake together with house the minute cake on top. Spread the remaining frosting over the cake together with coat alongside coconut.

My thoughts:

We were going to purchase Matt's birthday cake at a bakery this twelvemonth together with then nosotros could focus on picking crabs together with non baking but nosotros realized that since his birthday is Memorial Day this twelvemonth together with the twenty-four hours earlier is a Sunday, both bakeries nosotros idea virtually ordering from would locomote closed. Since it is only the 2 of us, I ordered this fix of tiny cake pans together with made a teeny-tiny layer cake. It was a picayune tricky to figure out the proportions (and you lot powerfulness notice you lot bring a fleck of icing leftover but amend every bit good much than every bit good picayune right?) but basically it is a regular cake scaled downwards past times nearly 3/4.

This cake would also locomote perfect for a child's birthday (they could bring their ain cake all to themselves!) or fifty-fifty made inward multiples for an event. I'm form of looking forrard to making to a greater extent than tiny layer cakes downwards the line. It is only every bit good cute!