This Louisiana Crunch Cake is about to be your new favorite dessert. Soft, moist bundt cake is surrounded with a sugary, coconut crust and topped with a homemade icing, sliced walnuts and toasted coconut flakes.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword bundt cake, cake recipe
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 50 minutesminutes
Servings 12Servings
Calories 554kcal
Ingredients
Cake Ingredients
3cupsflour
2tspbaking powder
1TspSalt
2cupswhite sugar
1 1/2cupsbuttersoftened
4eggsroom temperature
1/3cupsour cream
2tspvanilla extract
1/3cupflaked coconut
Icing Ingredients
4tbspheavy cream
1 1/2cuppowder sugar
1tspvanilla extract
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread Coconut Flakes on a baking sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Or until golden brown.
In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
Beat butter and sugar until creamy.
Add eggs, on at a time.
Beat in sour cream and vanilla extract.
Combine wet and dry ingredients until just incorporated. Don't overmix.
Spray the inside of bundt pan with cooking spray. Sprinkle white sugar in bundt pan and spread it around all the sides. Sprinkle half of the coconut flakes in the pan too.
Carefully pour the batter into the bundt cake pan.
Bake cake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes, or until top is golden brown.
Allow to cool fully, at least one hour.
While cake is cooling, make icing by combining all the icing ingredients.
Carefully dump cake on a cutting board or cooling rack and drizzle icing evenly over the cake.
Sprinkle the rest of the coconuts and sliced almonds. Slice and serve.