QUICK, EASY AND DELICIOUS Aunt Mary's Coconut Yum Yum Cake

Aunt Mary’s Coconut Yum Yum Cake Recipe 

What do you make for a party? Do you buy a cake from grocery store and bring to a party? Have you ever tried to bake a cake at home? Don’t have much time? 

I have a special cake recipe that will make your party easier for the rest of your life. 

This quick, easy and delicious Coconut Yum Yum Cake is the family’s recipe from our beloved aunt, Aunt Mary who was the best cook and she had been baking over 65 years.!! 

I’ve been making this cake for the party all year round for 10 years. Everybody loved it and kept asking for a recipe every time. 

Today I made and share a VDO how to make this cake in a simple rectangle cake pan and will ready to serve the guests in less than 2 hours.

Please watch the entire VDO before you start to make a cake. 

Why wait? Put on your apron and turn on the oven.!!! 

Cake Ingredients 

1 box Classic Yellow Cake Mix

4 large eggs

1 cup whole milk

1/3 cup vegetable oil (or 1/2 cup melted unsalted butter, cool) 

** 1/4 cup warm milk (can microwave for 45 seconds when ready to use) 

Topping Ingredients 

2 cups cold whole milk 

1 (5.1 oz) instant vanilla pudding and pie filling 

1 (20 oz can) crushed pineapple 

1 (8 oz tub) whipped topping

1 (7 oz bag) sweetened coconut flakes 

Directions 

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
2. Slightly butter the bottom of the cake pan/tray and set aside.
3. Put a parchment paper on baking sheet for easy to transfer. Empty a Classic Yellow cake mix into a sifter and sift once. Sometimes I sifted twice but once is good enough to break down the lumps.
4. Transfer sifted cake mix into a bowl of an electric mixer.
5. Add the eggs, milk, and vegetable oil in the bowl.
6. Fitted with the whisk attachment, mix on low speed for 30 seconds then raise the speed up to high, beat for 3 minutes.
7. Slowly stop the mixer and using spatula to scrape down the side and bottom of the bowl.
8. Mix on medium speed for 2 minutes then slowly reduced speed until stop.
9. Transfer the batter into prepared cake pan, tap the pan on the countertop for couple of times to remove some big bubbles. Use a toothpick to remove visible bubbles if needed.
10. Bake the cake immediately in preheated oven for 35 minutes or until a cake tester inserted into center comes out clean.
11. Do not open the oven until 30 minutes of baking time. 
12. Remove the cake from the oven, poke the holes on a cake with chopstick, pour 1/4 cup warm milk around the edges and into the holes, wrap with plastic wrap and let it cool completely on the rack before adding topping about 45 minutes 

Meanwhile, if your whipped topping still frozen , let it thaw on countertop until soften before use.

Once the cake is completely cool

1.  Empty crushed pineapple in a strainer, press down with spoon drain out the juice and set aside. 
2.  Add 2 cups cold milk into a large measuring cup, pour in  instant vanilla pudding mix whisk the pudding and milk together until smooth and start to thicken. Don’t want it too thick it’s harder to pour. Pour the pudding on the cake and spread with spatula until it cover the cake.
3. Add crushed pineapple on top of the pudding in a single layer.
4. Cover with whipped topping cream.
5. Sprinkle sweetened coconut flakes all over whipped cream. I use all of the coconut flakes. Refrigerate the cake until ready to serve. There it is Quick and Easy Coconut Yum Yum Cake that will change your party’s life forever.!! 
6. Enjoy!!