Coconut Cake

Ingredients for Coconut Cake:

1. Butter – 75 gm

    Sugar – 1 cup

2. Yellow yolk – From 2 eggs

3. Vanilla-coconut essence – ½ small spoon

4. Maida – 1 ¼ cup

    Baking powder – ½ a big spoon

    Salt – ¼ small spoon

5. Tinned coconut milk – 250 milli

6. White yolk – From 2 eggs

For sauce:

7. Coconut milk – 50 milli

    Condensed milk – 50 milli

8. Desiccated coconut – To decorate

How to prepare Coconut Cake?

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degree celsious.

2. Blend well sugar and butter.

3. Add white yolk one by one, and beat well.

4. After adding the first egg, the mixture should be beaten well before adding the second one.

5. Add essence and beat again. Keep it aside.

6. Mix together ingredients no: 4 in a separate bowl.

7. Add 1/3^rd of this mixture to the butter mixture and blend well, followed by half of the coconut milk. Blend well.

8. Again, add the butter mixture, mix well, and then the remaining coconut milk.

9. Mix the contents well and add the final 1/3^rd, and once again mix it well.

10. Beat the white yolk till it increases its volume, and slowly add it to the cake mixture and mix well.

11. Transfer the cake to a greased tin and place it in a pre-heated oven

12. Bake for 50-55 minutes till it’s done.

13. Mix ingredients no: 7 together to prepare the sauce.

14. Once the cake is completely cooked, take it from the oven and allow it to cool for 5 minutes.

15. Then take the cake from the tin and prick it here and there using a toothpick.

16. Add sauce on the top of the cake and refrigerate it to set.

17. You can decorate the cake with desiccated coconut before you serve.

Note: You can prepare desiccated coconut at home. Heat grated coconut in the oven and bake for a few minutes till its water content is fully absorbed.     

Vanitha Magazine December 1-14, 2017

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