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Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together and set aside. Beat butter and sugar with an. Coconut cake is a popular dessert in the Southern region of the United States. You can have 'V' coconut cake using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of 'V' coconut cake
- It’s of butter, softened plus extra for greasing..
- Prepare of coconut milk.
- You need of desiccated coconut.
- You need of caster sugar ( confectioners sugar ).
- Prepare of eggs.
- It’s of plain flour.
- It’s of baking powder.
- Prepare of raspberry jam.
- It’s of *FOR THE TOPPING*.
- Prepare of dessicated coconut.
- You need of coconut milk.
- You need of butter softened.
- It’s of icing sugar.
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'V' coconut cake instructions
- preheat the oven to 180C, Grease 3 x 18cm cake tins and line the bases with baking paper ( parchment ) .Put the coconut milk and dessicated coconut in a small saucepan. Bring just to the boil, then turn off the heat, set aside to cool for 20 minutes..
- using the mixer, cream the butter and sugar in a bowl for 3 -4 minutes until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until well combined, then beat in the coconut milk and dessicated coconut. Fold in the flour and baking powder, then divide the mixture between the cake tins and bake for 25 minutes until golden brown and risen or a skewer comes out clean ..
- now make the coconut buttecream topping, put 30g desiccated coconut and the coconut milk in a small saucepan. Bring just to the boil, then turn off the heat, set aside to cool for 20 minutes. In a mixing bowl, beat the butter for 2 minutes until light and creamy. Beat in the icing sugar for another 2 minutes, then beat in the coconut milk and dessicated coconut. chill the icing for 30 minutes..
- Place one of the cakes on a plate, spread over half the rasberry jam, then cover with a layer of buttecream. Repeat with the second cake, then place the third cake on top and cover the top and sides with buttecream. Sprinkle the remaining desiccated coconut over the top, slice and serve..
- Deeeelish :-).
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