12Twentysix Events: The Chew Daphne Oz's Pound Cake

I love trying new cake recipes so when I saw Daphne Oz making this Pound Cake with coconut & pecans I had to try and share my experience with you all.
The recipe called for Pecans but I only had Walnuts so I used that. The Recipe also said 2 cups of sugar but I only added 1 1/2 cups of sugar to prevent it from being to sweet. I only use half the amount of sugar for the glaze because I did not want the cake to be very sweet. On the show Daphne poured all the glaze on the cake, what I did was poured about half of the glaze on top of the cake before I flipped it onto my serving dish. I put the rest of the glaze in a gravy boat & my guests can pour as much or as little of the glaze over their slice of cake.Overall this was a really good cake. Daphne on the show mentioned it tasted like a pancake and it really did taste somewhat like a pancake.It was also really easy to make.
Cake Ingredients:
2 Cups Sugar (I used 1 1/2 Cups Sugar)
3 Cups Flour
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Cup Shredded Coconut
4 Eggs
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1 Cup Butter
1 Cup Buttermilk
1 Cup Pecans (I used Walnuts not pecans)

Glaze:
1 Cup Sugar (I only used 1/2 cup)
1 Cup Water
2 Tablespoons Butter
Powder Sugar for Dusting

Cake:


1. Preheat oven to 350. Mix together Butter, Sugar, & Eggs

2. Cream them together

3. In a separate bowl combine dry ingredients: Flour, Salt, Baking Powder

4. Add the dry Ingredient Mix & Buttermilk into your sugar, butter & egg mixture. I added half the dry ingredients & half a cup of buttermilk mixed well then added the rest of the dry ingredient mix & another half of buttermilk & mixed until all ingredients are well combined.

5. Dump coconut & walnuts into the batter and with a spatula fold in the walnuts & coconut

6. Grease your pan generously (the more you spray the better it will come out when you flip the cake)

7. Pour the batter into the pan and spread so the batter so it covers the entire pan


8. This is what it should look like right out the oven. (It took about an hour, just make sure you do the toothpick check before you remove from the oven)

9. Right out the oven pour half of your glaze mixture over the cake (If you want it to really sink in I would poke holes before pouring glaze) Then flip it over onto your serving dish.