Coconut Pecan Tea Cakes are sensational. These lovely miniature Bundt cakes start with a boxed cake mix and vanilla pudding mix. Adding coconut pecan frosting to the batter puts this dessert over the top. The coconut glaze also adds delightful flavor. These are fantastic for special occasions or holiday baking and parties. They'll cure every sweet tooth craving too.
1 zip lock bag WITHOUT the "stand and fill" bottom
Ingredients
TEA CAKES:
1boxbutter recipe yellow cake mix
5.1oz. boxvanilla pudding mix
1cuphalf-and-half
3largeeggs
1/3cupbuttersoftened (or melted)
1cancoconut pecan frosting
COCONUT ICING:
2cupspowdered sugar
1tsp.vanilla extract
1tsp.coconut extract
2 to 3tbsp.wateror 2% milk
Instructions
TEA CAKES:
Combine cake mix, vanilla pudding mix, half-and-half, eggs and butter.
Add and of coconut-pecan frosting and stir well to combine.
Spoon cake batter into greased and floured miniature 20-tin miniature Bundt pan - each about two-thirds full.
Bake at 350° degrees about 20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in the center of one of the cakes comes out clean.
Cool completely before transferring cakes to a wire rack and adding icing.
Drizzle with powdered sugar icing.
COCONUT ICING:
Whisk ingredients together adding only enough water to make a very thick icing.
Drizzle icing over cooled miniature Bundt cakes.
Notes
NOTE: Rotate Bundt pans on oven shelf racks half-way through baking time, if baking more than one rack of miniature Bundt pans at a time.NOTE: You can also spoon the icing into a ziplock bag without the bottom. Snip off a corner and pipe icing over top of cooled Tea Cakes.NOTE: I purchased the 20-tin miniature Bundt pans at Jo-Ann Fabric and Crafts.