Coconut Cake

Coconut Cake

Dairy-free… or nearly… egg free, let’s say.

Ingredients

1 ½ cups white flour*
1 ½ cups whole flour
1 ½ cups coconut
¼ cup molasses
¼ cup malt
¼ sugar
100g butter
3tsp baking powder
200mls water
pearl sugar, optional


Method

Heat oven to 220oC
Mix all dry ingredients together (sift the fine flour and baking powder into a bowl, then add whole flour, coconut and sugar)
Melt the butter, molasses and malt together.
Make a well in the dry mix and add water and butter mix.
Combine.
Bake in a 25cm cake tin for 20-30 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.

* The whole flour I use is really coarsely ground, which means if I don’t use white flour too, the whole thing just falls apart. If using regular wholemeal flour, you can probably use all whole.