Ingredients
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coconut chocolate cake
- 250g butter, chopped
- 200g dark chocolate, chopped
- 1.5 cups caster sugar
- 1 can coconut milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup coconut flour
- 2 1/2 cups plain flour, sifted
- 1/2 tsp all spice
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder, sifted
Chocolate ganache
- 200g dark chocolate, chopped
- 2/3 cup coconut milk
green lime sugar
- 2 limes
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup of desiccated coconut
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180°C, and prep your cake pan with butter or cooking spray.
- In a saucepan, over medium heat, stir together the butter, chocolate, sugar and coconut milk until it’s all dissolved and the chocolate has melted.
- Turn off the heat and let it sit to cool for a bit.
- In your mixer, add in the eggs, beat quickly, then add in the chocolate mix. Add in your coconut flour, your plain flour, your baking powder, all spice and cocoa.
- Mix until it’s all combined, then pour into the cake pan and bake for about an hour and a half, until a skewer comes out clean.
- While that’s baking, we’re going to make the ganache.
- In a small saucepan, stir together the chocolate and 2/3 cup of coconut cream until it’s completely smooth. Remove from the heat, pour into a bowl, and pop into the fridge util it’s cool, usually 30 minutes.
- For the lime sugar, grate the lime rind and pulse into a food processor until it’s fine.
- Once the cake is completely cool, and the ganache is thick, we’ll put it together.
- Slice the cake in half, smooth with some ganache, and sprinkle on the green lime sugar, leaving some for the top of the cake.
- Place the other half of the cake back on top, then smooth all the ganache around the cake so it’s smooth.
- Sprinkle on the rest of the green lime sugar.