Coconut Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup shortening
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 5 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup coconut
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
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• 1 tsp. coconut flavoring

Directions

Cream shortening and sugar, then add unbeaten eggs, 1 at a time. Add flavoring. Mix flour, salt and baking powder alternately with milk to shortening and sugar mixture. Add coconut. Bake in bundt or tube pan that has been well greased and flour at 325 degrees F. for 1 hour.

Then mix:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tsp. coconut flavoring

Bring to a boil for 1 minute. Pour this over cake after it has baked. Let stay in pan 25 minutes until cake has cooled. This cake stays very moist.

By cookiemom1 from Gilmer, TX