Apple Coconut Cake
Ingredients
3 C. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 C. vegetable oil
3 eggs
2 1/4 C. sugar
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 C. chopped pecans
3 C. cooking apples; peeled and chopped
1/2 C. flaked coconut
Brown sugar glaze:
1/2 C. light brown sugar; firmly packed
1/2 C. butter or margarine
1/4 C. milk
Cooking Instructions
Combine flour, soda, and salt; stir well, and set aside. Combine oil, eggs, sugar, and vanilla; beat at medium speed of an electric mixer 2 minutes. Add flour mixture; beat at low speed just until blended. Fold in pecans, apples, and coconut. (Batter will be stiff.) Spoon batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan and place on serving plate. Immediately drizzle Brown Sugar Glaze over cake while both are still warm. Brown Sugar Glaze: Combine all ingredients in a heavy saucepan; bring to a full boil and cook, stirring constantly, 2 minutes. Let cool to lukewarm.
"All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish." (1Corinthians 15:39)
