Chocolate and Coconut Soft Cake

Ingredients list for Chocolate and Coconut Soft Cake

• ½ cup Dark chocolate chopped, melted
• ¼ cup Desiccated coconut
• + for dusting Refined flour (maida) ? cup
• ¾ cup Icing sugar
• + for greasing Butter 8 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon
• 3½ Eggs
• ? cup Castor sugar (caster sugar)
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla essence

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180º C. Grease a round cake tin with some butter and dust with some flour.
2. Cream together icing sugar and butter in a bowl till light.
3. Sift flour into the mixture and fold in well.
4. Beat together eggs and castor sugar in another bowl till fluffy. Add this to the butter-sugar-flour mixture and mix well.
5. Add desiccated coconut and chocolate and mix. Add vanilla essence and mix till well combined into a batter.
6. Pour the batter into the prepared tin, place the tin in the preheated oven and bake for 20-25 minutes. Remove from oven, cool and remove from the mould.
7. Cut into wedges and serve.