Giant Monte Carlo Cake

11
Ingredients

45m
Prep Time

20m
Cook Time

1h 5m
Ready In

Recipe: #35761

September 22, 2020

Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Eggs, Australian, Baby Shower, Birthday, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Flour, Sugar, more

recipe by:
ImPat

"From our Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times."

Original is 10 servings

Metric US

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Nutritional

Serving Size: 1 (339.8 g)
Calories 838.9
Total Fat - 48.5 g
Saturated Fat - 27.9 g
Cholesterol - 460.4 mg
Sodium - 416.2 mg
Total Carbohydrate - 82.6 g
Dietary Fiber - 7.5 g
Sugars - 31.1 g
Protein - 24.5 g
Calcium - 247.7 mg
Iron - 4.7 mg
Vitamin C - 5.1 mg
Thiamin - 0.4 mg

Step 1

Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan forced.

Step 2

Grease two 8-cm deep, round 22cm cake pans and line the bases with baking paper.

Step 3

Place the butter and golden syrup in a medium saucepan and heat, stirring, over low heat for 5 minutes or until the butter melts and then transfer to a large bowl and set aside to cool slightly.

Step 4

Stir the flour, coconut, sugar, milk and egg into the butter mixture and evenly pour into the prepared pans and bake for 35-40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centres comes out clean and then set aside to cool in the pans for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Step 5

Use electric beaters to beat the cream in a bowl until soft peaks form and stir 90 grams (1/4 cup) jam into the cream and tint with colouring as desired, if using.

Step 6

Combine 2 tablespoons of remaining jam with 1 tablespoon water in a small bowl.

Step 7

Use a serrated knife to trim the top of 1 cake until even. Place cake, cut-side up, on a serving plate. Spread with 2 tablespoons of remaining jam and evenly top with half the raspberry cream and dollop the remaining jam over the top and use a skewer to swirl the jam into the cream and top with the remaining cake.