Coconut Cake
Need a recipe for a decadent cake? Try this quick coconut cake recipe for a delicious baked treat today. Stork – love to bake.
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Ingredients
Main Ingredients
125g Stork Baking Margarine
250ml castor sugar
3 eggs
500ml cake flour
20ml baking powder
1 Pinch of salt
125ml milk mixed with 125ml water
5ml vanilla essence
Topping Ingredients
375ml water
250g desiccated coconut
100ml sugar
5ml ground cinnamon
3 cinnamon sticks
2 egg whites
1 Apricot jam, slightly warmed
To Serve
1 Cream
Step by step method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Grease a square cake tin.
- In a large bowl cream the Stork Bake and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition until blended.
- Sift the dry ingredients into a separate bowl.
- Add to the creamed mixture, alternating with the milk mixture.
- Add the vanilla essence.
- Spoon the batter into the prepared tin. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until done (a skewer inserted in the middle should come out clean).
- Leave to cool.
- Bring the water to the boil in a saucepan.
- Add the coconut, sugar and cinnamon.
- Boil until almost all the water has evaporated and the mixture starts to look sticky.
- Set aside to cool.
- Beat the egg whites until stiff and add to the coconut mixture.
- Spread a layer of warmed jam on the cake.
- Top with the coconut mixture.
- Put in the oven until the coconut turns golden brown.
- Serve lukewarm with cream on the side.