White Coconut Cake Recipe | Tyler Florence | Food Network

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup water
• 1/4 cup light rum
• Splash coconut extract
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 cups cake flour, plus more for pans
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• Pinch kosher salt
• 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pans
• 2 cups baker's or superfine sugar
• 4 whole eggs
• 1 cup whole milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• Coconut Buttercream, recipe follows
• 1 cup sweetened flake coconut (long, lacy flakes)
• 1 pound (4 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
• 2 pounds (about 8 cups) confectioners' sugar
• 1 tablespoon coconut extract
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract