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coconut pound cake
Shilpa

Coconut Pound cake

Moist, flavourful, and easy-to-make coconut pound cake topped with white chocolate ganache, coconut, and almonds.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
chilling time 20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings: 10 servings
Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Cake
  • 100 g Butter (room temperature, unsalted) 7 tbsp
  • 100 g Sugar(powdered) ½ cup + 3 tbsp
  • 90 g All-purpose flour ¾ cup
  • 10 g Cornflour 1 tbsp
  • ⅛ tsp Salt
  • ½ tsp Baking powder
  • 2 Eggs medium size
  • 45 ml Milk (room temperature) 35 g /3½ tbsp
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 50 g Desiccated Coconut ½ cup
Topping
  • 100 g White chocolate (chopped) ¾ cup
  • 30 g Butter (room temperature, unsalted) 2 tbsp
  • 22 ml Milk (room temperature) 1½ tbsp
  • Desiccated Coconut garnish
  • Almonds garnish

Method
 

Cake
  1. 1. Preheat the oven to 180℃/350℉. Grease a 20 cm x 11.5 cm loaf pan with butter/oil and place a small piece of parchment/butter paper at the bottom of the pan.
  2. 2. Whisk eggs, milk, and vanilla extract in a bowl till well combined. Set it aside.
  3. 3. Cream butter and powdered sugar in a large bowl on medium speed for 1-2 minutes or until a silky smooth consistency is achieved.
  4. 4. Sift in flour, cornflour, salt, and baking powder. Mix with a spatula to combine. Add desiccated coconut and again mix with a spatula till combined.
  5. 5. Add egg-milk mixture in 3-4 batches. After each addition mix on low speed till the ingredients are just combined (do not over-mix).
  6. 6. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. And bake in the preheated oven at 180℃/350℉ for 35-40 minutes or until the skewer inserted in the cake comes out clean.  
  7. 7. Place the cake on a wire rack, after 5 minutes to cool completely.
Topping (optional)
  1. 8. Melt white chocolate chunks, milk, and butter in a microwave or double boiler. After the cake has completely cooled down pour this mixture on top of the cake. Put desiccated coconut on top with chopped almonds.
  2. 9. Place in the fridge to chill for 20 minutes. Cut and serve.

Notes

  •  If you feel the surface of the cake has browned too much yet the inside of the cake is still under-cooked then cover the surface of the cake with foil paper and continue baking. The foil paper will prevent browning.