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Coconut Cake (Dolce Di Cocco)

Here's how you make Coconut Cake (Dolce Di Cocco)
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  • Servings: 7
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 70m
    • The following recipe serves 7 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 175 grams all-purpose flour (plain, 6 ounces)
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 175 grams caster sugar (fine granulated, 6 ounces)
  • 1 large egg
  • 125 ml milk (4 fl ounces)
  • 4 tablespoons melted butter
  • Lemon rind (1/2 lemon, rind only, finely grated)
  • 50 grams desiccated coconut (2 ounces)
  • TO DECORATE
  • Icing sugar (confectioners sugar)
  • 300 ml cream (single thin cream, 1/2pint)
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat the oven to 180c, 350f.

  • Step 2: Sift the flour into a large bowl with the baking powder and sugar. Beat the egg in a bowl with the milk and melted butter and pour into the centre of the flour mix. Add the finely grated lemon rind and coconut and beat well together to form a thick elastic batter.

  • Step 3: Butter a 20cm/8in cake pan and pour in the batter.

  • Step 4: Bake in a moderate oven for about 35 minutes or until the cake is crisp and golden on top.

  • Step 5: Remove the cake from the oven and leave for a 10 minutes and turn out onto a wire rack to completely cool.

  • Step 6: Sift icing sugar over the top and transfer the cake to a serving plate.

  • Step 7: Immediately before serving mix the cream with the cinnamon and pour over the cake or serve on the side.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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