Easter special recipe by Chef.Mohammad Shahid (Sous Chef), Double Tree by Hilton

Easter special recipe by Chef.Mohammad Shahid (Sous Chef), Double Tree by Hilton

 Baked Coconut cake with cream cheese frosting

Ingredients:

• 1 kg cake flour (not self-rising)
• 10 gm  baking powder
• 5 gm  salt
• 5 gm  baking soda
• 200 gm unsalted butter, softened
• 150 gm  granulated sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1 tbsp. vanilla extract
• 150 gm  sweetened cream of coconut
• 120 ml low-fat buttermilk

Cream Cheese Frosting

• 226  gm  cream cheese, softened
• 150 gm  unsalted butter, softened
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 7 gm. salt
• 450 gm   confectioners’ sugar
• 100 gm  unsweetened coconut flakes

Method:

1. First beat the butter and sugar together in machine bowl until sugar is dissolved, than slowly add the eggs one by one in the mixture and vanilla extract  until mixture become smooth. 
2. Than in one bowl put cream of coconut and butter milk together  than add the flour , baking powder, salt in that mixture.
3. Than combined all mixture together in one bowl.
4. Put the mixture in a cooking pan and bake it, 160 c temperature for 35 to 40 minute 
5. Make the frosting cream with cream cheese, butter; sugar and salt make it creamy.
6. Then apply the frosting cream in the layer of cake and cover whole cake   with frosting cream and the last cover with roasted coconut flakes.
7. To add a twist you can even top it up with some seasonal  fruits, or chocolate flakes