Dairy free Coconut Cake

 I searched for a duplicate of my Grandma's coconut cake. However I needed a vegan dairy free version . So I took several recipes and made one of my own. It was for Ansely's 15th birthday and it was a huge hit. The best tasting cake yet!

Here is the recipe:

Cake

1 cup earth balance

3 cups organic sugar

4 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

Cream the earth balance add sugar cream well. Add eggs one at a time and vanilla.

4 cups organic unbleached flour sifted with

2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1/2 cup coconut milk creamer ( I use so delicious )

1/2 cup coconut milk

1 can pineapple (purée in my vitamix)

Add flour alternately with coconut milk. Mix well. Add pineapple . Mix

Pour into 3 9 inch greased cake pans. Bake 350 20-30 minutes . Or till golden.

While cake bakes prepare coconut filling.

Coconut filling
1 cup organic sugar
1 container non dairy cream cheese
1/2 cup organic coconut flakes
5 tb coconut creamer

Cream all ingredients together set aside in fridge.

After cakes cool spread filling between layers. Ice cake with a butter cream frosting with 4 tb non dairy cream Cheese. Top with organic coconut.

I use the standard Wilton buttercream recipe.

Here are photos of the cake for some reasons the first few I uploaded from my iphone will not go in proper order. The last few are from my digital SLR.

This is the filling

Top layer

This is out of the oven