Coconut Milk Cake by Marian Keyes
Ingredients
170g butter
300g caster sugar
4 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla extract
250g self raising flour
Pinch of salt
3/4 tsp baking powder
50g dissecated coconut
200ml coconut milk
Syrup
200ml coconut milk
40g light brown soft sugar
1. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees and spray a bundt tin with easy release spray.
2. Beat the eggs & the sugar until plain and fluffy. Add eggs Individually mixing well. Add vanilla extract. In another bowl mix the sieved flour, salt, baking powder and coconut.
3. Pour 1/3 of the coconut milk and the same of the flour mix into the butter and eggs and mix well.
4. Add another third of each and then add the final amount.
5. Pour into the pan and bake for 1 hr.
6. Cool on a wire rack then using a skewer prick the top all over.
7. Make the syrup by gently heating the coconut milk and sugar together .Then pour half over the cake and few hours later pour the rest and allow to soak through.
