Coconut cake is such a dreamy dessert. The texture is soft and the icing is creamy. I especially love this recipe from Kerrygold because it uses raw coconut flakes as a garnish. Talk about a yum fest! Plus, this cake looks absolutely gorgeous. I mean, you could use this wonderful dessert as a centerpiece…but it would be hard to keep staring at something so delicious without slicing yourself off a hunk.
Great advice! Trying to work with/frost a still warm cake is a disaster.
Ingredients
For the cake:
10.5oz Kerrygold unsalted butter, melted
10.5oz caster sugar
2 eggs
10.5oz plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 lemon, juice
8.5 floz coconut milk
1 tablespoon coconut oil
1 teaspoon McCormick vanilla extract
For the frosting:
1 lemon, zest & juice
7oz Kerrygold unsalted butter, softened
9oz Domino icing sugar
1 teaspoon coconut oil
To decorate:
7oz raw coconut flakes
Instructions
Pre-heat the oven to 355°F and lightly grease two 20cm loose bottomed sandwich tins.
Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder and add the sugar to a mixing bowl or food mixer. In a separate bowl combine the eggs, coconut milk, lemon juice, coconut oil, vanilla extract and melted butter and whisk together until completely combined. Then add your wet ingredients to your dry ingredients to form the cake batter.
Divide the mixture evenly between the two tins and level with a spatula or the back of a spoon. Bake in the oven for about 25 minutes or until well-risen and golden.
To make the frosting combine the icing sugar, butter, lemon juice, lemon zest and coconut oil in a bowl or food mixer.
Once the cakes are baked, leave them to cool in their tins and then remove them from their tins and cool them completely on a wire rack.
To assemble, place one of the sponges top down, and spread with the lemon frosting to cover it. Place the other sponge with the top facing upwards and now cover the entire cake with the rest of the lemon frosting. Once the frosting has covered the entire cake, add the raw coconut flakes all over.
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Quick Tip: Dust with a few sprinkles of cinnamon to add a touch of color to the top of the cake.
