What is the best frosting for a coconut cake?

Buttercream (perfect every time)

•1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening

•1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine softened

•1 teaspoon vanilla extract

•4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (approximately 1 lb.)

•2 tablespoons milk

Beat till smooth

Makes: About 3 cups of icing.

in case you will purchase a frosting, i could advise a normal white frosting. it is significant to not make the cake too prosperous and overwhelming, so butter cream frosting could be too plenty. in case you will make the frosting, i could use a normal white frosting as properly and upload your famous extract to it, ideally coconut. i'm hoping your mom has a dazzling birthday!

You could use coconut, orange or a chocolate glaze frosting. For easy frosting recipes try http://www.easy-baking-recipes.com/how-to-make-fro... The recipes are really easy and use simple ingredients. Hope this helps.

add 1 tsp coconut extract to your frosting and sprinkle coconut over the cake

no-cook-7-minute-frosting

Ingredients:

3/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 cup boiling water

1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar

3 unbeaten egg whites

food coloring (optional)

coconut (optional)

Directions:

Prep Time: 3 mins

Total Time: 10 mins

1 Mix sugar, cream of tartar, vanilla and egg whites.

2 Add boiling water.

3 Beat on high til mixture forms peaks (like meringue) approx 5-7 minutes.

Read more: http://www.food.com/recipe/no-cook-7-minute-frosti...

get coconut and toast it in the oven and mix it with frozen whipped topping and maybe a lil coconut extract? soooo good! hope i helped

cream cheese frosting..

vanilla

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