Coconut Cake

This delicious bake, joined with the beautiful icing will please all who enjoy a deliciously moist cake. See below for our funny story!!

You Will Need: (FOR CAKE)

175g of butter, (be sure to leave it out of the fridge for about 15 mins before you start!)

175g of caster sugar

175g of flour

2tsp baking powder / 1 sachet

3 eggs, beaten

50g desiccated coconut

2tbsp coconut cream (the hard stuff off the top of a can of coconut milk) OR single cream

Method

1 Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C OR fan oven 160 

2 Butter 2 20cm/8in sandwich tins, and line them with greaseproof paper.

3 Mix the sugar, butter, baking powder and eggs together using a food processor or your electric whisk, until smooth

4 Gently stir in coconut and cream

5 Divide the mixture between the tins and smooth the tops using a plastic spatula.

6 Bake for 25 minutes or until evenly golden and firm. Feel free to start on the icing and wash up the mixing bowl. Take a few licks before you wash it!!

7 Loosen the edges and leave in the tins for 5 minutes then turn onto a wire rack to cool. Don't forget to peel off the lining paper!

You Will Need: (FOR BUTTERCREAM)

 100g of butter (be sure to leave it out of the fridge for about 15 mins before you start!)

280g of icing sugar

3tbsp of coconut cream, or single cream

5tbsp of raspberry jam

Method

1 Beat together the icing sugar. butter and coconut cream until nice and smooth.

2 Spread one sponge with the jam, top with just under half the buttercream and sandwich with the other sponge.

3 Swirl the rest around the top of the cake.

Funny Story (with anecdote!!!)

My gran and I were baking this cake last week, and we had just gotten to making the icing. We looked in the cupboard and we found about 20g of icing sugar left. We both gasped and then quickly googled "how to make icing sugar free icing" We completed the arduous task, but it took us about 30 minutes longer. Normally this would be the end of the story, but during dinner when my Mum asked us about the strange icing, I told her about the no-icing sugar problem. She then told me we had so much icing sugar that it didn't even fit in the normal cupboard. There was more than 1 kilo of icing sugar in there!!!

Anecdote: Always check you have enough ingredients before you begin, and if you think that you are out of something, ask your Mother!!!