Coconut Cake with Chocolate Chunks and Coconut Drizzle

Name: Coconut Cake with Chocolate Chunks and Coconut Drizzle
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 414 milliliters all purpose flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 170 grams bittersweet chocolate bars (do not exceed 61% cacao), broken into 1/2-inch irregular pieces, divided; 2 larges eggs; 2 teaspoons (packed) finely grated orange peel; 177 milliliters powdered sugar; 1 teaspoon fine sea salt; 177 milliliters sugar; 118 milliliters sweetened flaked coconut; 118 milliliters (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature; 2 Tbsps (or more) canned unsweetened coconut milk; 237 milliliters unsweetened shredded coconut; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract; 12 servings Vanilla ice cream

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Coconut Cake with Chocolate Chunks and Coconut Drizzle a try. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe makes 12 servings with 515 calories, 7g of protein, and 28g of fat each. Mother's Day will be even more special with this recipe. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. If you have all purpose flour, powdered sugar, sea salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Generouslybutter 9-inch-diameter cake pan with2-inch-high sides; dust pan with flour,shaking out excess. Sift 1 3/4 cups flour,baking powder, and sea salt into mediumbowl. Stir in unsweetened shreddedcoconut and set aside. Using electric mixer,beat sugar, butter, and orange peel in largebowl until light and fluffy.

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Baking Powder

Orange Zest

Sea Salt

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Cake Form

Oven

Add eggs 1 ata time, beating well after each addition.Beat in vanilla.

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Vanilla

Egg

Add flour mixture in 3additions alternately with coconut milk in2 additions, beating just until blended aftereach addition. Fold in half of bittersweetchocolate pieces.

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Coconut Milk

All Purpose Flour

Spread batter evenly inprepared cake pan.

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Spread

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Cake Form

Sprinkle remainingchocolate pieces over batter, then sprinklewith sweetened flaked coconut.

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Sweetened Coconut Flakes

Bake cake until golden and testerinserted into center comes out clean,tenting with sheet of foil if coconut atopcake is browning too quickly, 60 to 70minutes.

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Coconut

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Oven

Aluminum Foil

Transfer cake to rack and cool inpan 45 minutes.

Coconut

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Coconut

Drizzle

Whisk powderedsugar, 2 tablespoons unsweetenedcoconut milk, and vanilla in small bowl toblend well, adding more coconut milk by1/2 teaspoonfuls until mixture is thinenough to drizzle over cake.

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Coconut Milk

Vanilla

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Whisk

Bowl

Carefully run small knife aroundsides of cake to loosen. Invert cake ontoplatter, then carefully invert again ontoanother platter, coconut side up. Usingsmall spoon, drizzle powdered sugarmixture decoratively over cake. Cool cakecompletely on platter. DO AHEAD Cake canbe made up to 1 day ahead. Cover cakeand let stand at room temperature.

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Coconut

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Knife

Cut cake into wedges and serve withvanilla ice cream.

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Ice Cream

* Available at specialty foods stores and natural foods stores.

** Sold at many supermarkets and at Indian, Southeast Asian, and Latin markets. If unavailable, use 1 cup half and half mixed with 1/2 teaspoon imitation coconut extract.

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Coconut Extract