Chocolate coconut cake #coastal coconut dish challenge

Name: Chocolate coconut cake #coastal coconut dish challenge
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 250 gm Butter/margarine; 180 gms sugar; 40 gms cocoa; 250 gms flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 2 tsp vanilla essence; 4 eggs; 1 cup coconut milk; 50 gms dessicated coconut; 100 gms grated chocolate; Icing sugar for dusting

Wanjiku Lucia @wanjiku_lucia

Nairobi

I decided to play around with my chocolate cake recipe and came up with this yummy yummy and easy to make cake. Hope you enjoy!

Wanjiku Lucia @wanjiku_lucia

Nairobi

I decided to play around with my chocolate cake recipe and came up with this yummy yummy and easy to make cake. Hope you enjoy!

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Ingredients

250 gmButter/margarine
180 gmssugar
40 gmscocoa
250 gmsflour
1 tspbaking powder
1/2 tspbaking soda
2 tspvanilla essence
4eggs
1 cupcoconut milk
50 gmsdessicated coconut
100 gmsgrated chocolate
Icing sugar for dusting

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Steps

1

Measure out all your ingredients accurately.
2

Prepare an 8" baking tin and preheat your oven to 180degrees.
3

Thoroughly mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa and keep aside.
4

In another bowl, put sugar and butter and cream till fluffy and pale.
5

Add the eggs, one at a time and continue beating till well incorporated.
6

Add the flour/coco/baking/powder/baking soda and continue mixing while adding the coconut milk.
7

Fold in the desiccated coconut and put the batter into a baking tin. Bake at 180degrees for 40mins - 50 mins or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
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Once the cake is baked, leave in the tin to cool for 10mins, then place on a cooling rack. Allow yo cool completely before icing.
9

I wanted my cake 'semi naked' i placed the cake upside down on a cake board and cut the cake into half.
10

Take the grated chocolate and melt it. Apply some whipped cream on the bottom layer of the cake and sprinkle some grated chocolate.
11

Place the other layer back on the cake. Then pour out the melted chocolate on the cake and spread evenly allowing the chocolate to drip to the sides of the cake.
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Put your cake in the fridge for afew minutes.
13

Cut out strips of parchment paper and place them in a design on your cake. I used some whipped cream to fix them at the edges.
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Put your icing sugar in a sieve and sift evenly on your cake.
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Make sure the.icing sugar is well distributed on your cake.
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Very carefully and gently lift the strips of parchment paper from the cake. Wipe off the excess icing sugar from the board. Serve and enjoy the cake!
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I would like to know how yours turn out, so please take a photo and post a cooksnap below this recipe! ^_^