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Toasted Coconut Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Step 1:

    Preheat oven to 180ºC. Line and grease three 20cm round cake tins

  2. Step 2:

    Cream eggs and sugar until thick and pale.

  3. Step 3:

    Heat coconut milk and butter until butter is melted. Do not boil.

  4. Step 4:

    Sift flour and baking powder. Add the toasted coconut.

  5. Step 5:

    Turn the mixer to the lowest setting and add flour and milk to egg mixture.

  6. Step 6:

    Divide batter between the cake tins.

  7. Step 7:

    Bake for or until a cake tester comes out clean.

  8. Step 8:

    Remove the cakes from the tins immediately and cool on wire cooling racks completely.

  9. Step 9:

    Cream 200g butter and 400g icing sugar. Add enough coconut milk to make a spreadable buttercream.

  10. Step 10:

    Stack the layers of cake on top of each other, filling each layer with buttercream as you stack them.

  11. Step 11:

    Cover the edge of the cake with buttercream.

  12. Step 12:

    Place the remaining toasted coconut onto a baking tray and spread it out evenly.

  13. Step 13:

    holding the cake, one hand on the base and one hand on the top, roll the edges of the cake in the coconut to cover the sides of the cake.

  14. Step 14:

    Move the cake to a cake stand or plate and cover the top of the cake in the remaining buttercream and coconut.