Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, coquito cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Transform coquito - the festive, creamy coconut drink from Puerto Rico - into a luscious layer cake! Here, we take the classic coquito flavors - coconut, cinnamon and rum - and infuse them into each and every cake layer. We start by adding sweet Coco GOYA® Cream of Coconut and rich GOYA® Coconut Milk to the batter, making it extra moist and delicious. The sheet cake itself is a nice fluffy coconut cake that uses coconut cream (a must in coquito).

Coquito cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Coquito cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook coquito cake using 17 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Coquito cake:

1. Take cake
2. Take 2 cup granulated sugar
3. Make ready 1 cup butter or 2 sticks of butter
4. Make ready 4 eggs (yokes and whites separated)
5. Make ready 1 tbsp vanilla extract
6. Take 2 cup self rising flour
7. Get 1 cup milk
8. Make ready 3/4 cup brandy
9. Get Coquito
10. Take 3 cup Coquito (find recipe in my profile)
11. Take frosting
12. Prepare 1 pints heavy whipping cream
13. Prepare 1/4 cup powdered sugar (more or less depending on how sweet you like your frosting)
14. Get 1 tsp coconut extract
15. Prepare garnish
16. Get 1 sprinkle of sweetened shredded coconut
17. Make ready 1 sprinkle of cinnamon

Refrigerate cake for at least four hours, but preferably overnight. Toast the coconut by placing it in a pan on the stove top at medium heat. Turn the classic Puerto Rican holiday cocktail, coquito, into a coconut rum cupcake with a lime buttercream frosting with the help of the famous Robicelli's in New York City. And for a festive presentation, bake these off using our favorite silicone cupcake liners, they're colorful and fun and reusable!

Steps to make Coquito cake:

1. Preheat oven to to 350° and butter or spray your molds. I use baking spray.
2. In a bowl beat egg whites until stiff and set aside
3. In another mixing bowl, beat butter sugar, yokes, brandy and vanilla extract until well blended
4. Slowly add the flour and milk, alternate little by little while beating
5. Once blended, fold egg whites into batter. Very important DO NOT beat or mix the egg whites in. Gently fold them in until blended.
6. Put mixture into cake mold and gently pick up and drop the mold on the counter to get excess air out
7. Bake for about 25-30 minutes depending on your molds. DO NOT open oven door until about 20 minutes.
8. Let cool off until warm enough that you can touch it, but not cold. With a skewer poke holes throughout the cakes
9. Slowly pour your coquito over the cake. Make sure to use all three cups. Refrigerate for about 30 minutes
10. While your cake is cooling and absorbing the coquito, make your frosting.
11. Combine whipping cream, coconut extract and powdered sugar in a bowl and whip until stiff
12. Frost the cake and sprinkle shredded coconut and cinnamon on top
13. Enjoy

Turn the classic Puerto Rican holiday cocktail, coquito, into a coconut rum cupcake with a lime buttercream frosting with the help of the famous Robicelli's in New York City. And for a festive presentation, bake these off using our favorite silicone cupcake liners, they're colorful and fun and reusable! Pour the water, milk, rum, and coconut milk into a blender. Blend until well combined, then refrigerate for at least one hour, or until ready to serve. I have so many recipes I want to share and this coquito recipe has been on my list for a long time!

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