Chocolate coconut cake

Name: Chocolate coconut cake
Cook time: 2 h 15 min
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 100 g Coconut chips; 100 g Coconut flake; 400 g fresh pineapple; 300 g Dark chocolate; 350 g soft butter; 3 Eggs (size M); 5 TABLESPOONS Rum; 150 g Sugar; 350 g Flour; 2 coated Tsp Baking Powder; 1 coated Tsp Baking soda; 100 ml Milk; 50 g Icing sugar; 200 g Double cream cream cheese

AUTHOR
Harley Romero

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

COOK TIME
135 mins

TOTAL TIME
135 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16

100 g Coconut chips
100 g Coconut flake
400 g fresh pineapple
300 g Dark chocolate
350 g soft butter
3 Eggs (size M)
5 TABLESPOONS Rum
150 g Sugar
350 g Flour
2 coated Tsp Baking Powder
1 coated Tsp Baking soda
100 ml Milk
50 g Icing sugar
200 g Double cream cream cheese

Directions

1
Spread coconut chips on a baking tray. Roast in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ circulating air: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 10 minutes until golden brown. Roast grated coconut in a pan without fat until golden brown.
2
Let it cool down on a flat plate. Peel pineapple, remove stalk, cut pineapple into cubes. Chop the chocolate and melt with 150 g butter in a small pot.
3
Beat the eggs, 4 tablespoons of rum and sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer until creamy. Mix flour, 25 g grated coconut, baking powder and baking soda. Stir the fat-chocolate mixture into the egg cream. Alternately stir in flour mixture and milk.
4
Stir in the pineapple cubes. Pour the dough into a greased, floured box form (approx. 2 litres capacity, approx. 30 cm long) and smooth it down. In a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ circulating air: 150 °C/ gas: see
5
manufacturer) bake for about 1 1/2 hours. Let the cake cool down in the tin for about 10 minutes. Remove from the tin and let it cool down on a cake rack.
6
Stir 200 g butter, icing sugar and 1 tablespoon rum until whitish and creamy. Add cream cheese and stir until smooth. Spread the cake with the cream evenly. Sprinkle the sides with remaining grated coconut, top with coconut chips.