Chocolate Coconut Cake

The Golden Rough of the cake world

Serves 8 – 10

Ingredients

250g butter, melted

½ cup cocoa powder

1 1/3 cups castor sugar

3 eggs

1 ½ cups desiccated coconut

1 ½ cups self-raising flour

¾ cup milk

Preheat oven to 180°C.

Place the butter, cocoa powder, sugar, eggs, coconut, flour and milk into a bowl and mix until smooth.

Pour the mixture into a lined 24cm round cake tin and bake for 50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

Spread the cake with chocolate icing if desired or serve with thick cream and a sprinkling of cocoa.

Icing

85g butter

2 tbsp water

¼ cup castor sugar

¾ cup icing sugar

2 tbsp cocoa powder

Place butter, water, and castor sugar in a pan over a low heat and stir until smooth. Beat in the icing sugar and cocoa powder. Refrigerate for a few minutes or until spreadable.

Donna Hay, The Age Epicure page 9 July 10 2001

Wonderful cake, and very fast to make. You can easily make stencils and stencil something on top of the cake with icing sugar, too. I did that a couple of times.