Easy recipe: Coconut cake

Easy recipe: Coconut cake (Photo: iStock)

Let’s bake this delicious coconut cake with cream cheese frosting!

What you’ll need:

2 eggs

250g sugar

250g flour

20g of coconut

powder

125ml coconut oil

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

3/4 cup coconut milk

3 teaspoons of baking powder

What to do:

Beat the eggs and sugar together until fluffy. In a separate bowl, mix all the other ingredients until you get a thick batter. Mix the flour with the egg and sugar mixture, then pour the mixture into a greased baking tray. Bake at 180°C for 50 minutes to 1 hour, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.

For the frosting:

150g butter

75g cream cheese

400g icing sugar

20g coconut powder

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence.

Sweetened coconut flakes (for topping).

What to do:

Mix all of the above ingredients, except the coconut flakes, together using an electric mixer until fluffy. Use this mixture to frost the cooled cake, then finish off with sweetened coconut flakes or desiccated coconut. Enjoy!