This recipe outlines the process for making a chocolate coconut cake. Ingredients include butter, cocoa powder, self-raising flour, baking powder, desiccated coconut, caster sugar, eggs, and milk. The method involves preheating the oven, preparing a cake tin, melting butter, combining ingredients, baking for one hour, and cooling the cake on a rack after allowing it to rest.
Ingredients
250 g butter
115g cocoa powder
225g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
90g desiccated coconut
337g caster sugar
4 eggs
180ml milk
Equipment
Round cake tin 20 cm
Large mixing bowl
Sieve
Wire cooling rack
Other
Baking paper
Method
Preheat oven to 160℃ and line the base and sides of a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper.
Melt butter. Sift cocoa, flour and baking powder into a large bowl and add the coconut, caster sugar, eggs, milk and melted butter. Mix to combine.
Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin and place in the oven to bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
Allow the cake to cook in the tin for 15 minutes before putting it on a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
