Coconut Pound cake
Moist, flavourful, and easy-to-make coconut pound cake topped with white chocolate ganache, coconut, and almonds.
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
Instructions
Cake
- 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. Whisk eggs, milk, and vanilla extract in a bowl till well combined. Set it aside.
- 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. 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. 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. 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. Place the cake on a wire rack, after 5 minutes to cool completely.
Topping (optional)
- 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.
- 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.