How to Make Tasty Coconut cake

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Ingredients of Coconut cake

1. You need 175 g of all purpose flour.
2. Prepare 75 g of all purpose flour.
3. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
4. It's 175 g of sugar.
5. Prepare 175 g of margarine.
6. Prepare 4 of eggs.
7. Prepare 1 Tbsp of coconut essence.
8. It's 2 Tbsps of desicated coconut.
9. It's 1/2 cup of chocolate chunks or chips.

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Coconut cake step by step

1. Preheat oven at 180°C for 20 minutes as you prepare the batter..
2. Sift 75g flour and baking powder into a small bowl and stir. Set aside..
3. In a bowl put 175g flour and butter and mix together till flour is incorporated in margarine..
4. Whisk eggs and sugar together until it doubles in volume then add coconut essence and mix slightly..
5. Pour ½ of the sugar & egg mixture into the flour- butter mixture, mix then add ½ of the 75g flour into the sugar mixture..
6. Add in the remaining sugar - eggs mix into the bowl followed by the remaining 75g flour and mix but do not overmix..
7. Add chocolate chunks and fold into the batter slowly. Pour batter into a baking tin sprinkle some desicated coconut and chocolate on top..
8. Bake at 180°C for 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean to confirm if done..
9. Enjoy!.

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