{"id":3700,"date":"2018-05-20T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2020-06-03T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T10:15:15","slug":"raffello-coconut-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/?p=3700","title":{"rendered":"Raffello Coconut Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

This cake makes me think of Christmas in a hot country lol, 😂 mainly as the cake is covered in desiccated coconut which looks like snow and as it’s a coconut cake it always makes me think of a desert island somewhere. I know, totally odd combination right? I have been Christmas in a hot country once and really didn’t enjoy it, as much as I hate feeling cold, it just didn’t feel like Christmas at all.<\/p>\n

I’ve always wanted to make a Raffello cake, I like the taste and textures of them and how they are crisp, light and creamy. I wanted to incorporate these into the cake. But the main feature being coconut of course, I wanted the cake to be spongy and taste of coconut through and through!<\/p>\n

I adjusted the recipe slightly, I added malibu to make it more coconutty (and desert island theme of course 💁🏽) and slightly alcoholic. I also added coconut wafers in between the layer to recapture the taste of them Raffellos. These are all optional but I just wanted to I bring extra elements. Of course, I made cream cheese frosting, my fav and it works so much better as it’s creamy yum yum 😋 😋 😋 .<\/p>\n

This cake was really moist and coconutty, if you love coconuts you will like this cake. I couldn’t taste the Malibu that much but I didn’t want to alter the texture and add too much Malibu as it could have made the cake too wet.<\/p>\n

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Raffello Coconut Cake<\/div>\t
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A coconut creamy, crispy Raffello cake<\/div>\t
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20 min <\/span><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\t
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  1. 170g - soft unsalted butter<\/li>\t\t\t\t
  2. 2 cups - plain flour<\/li>\t\t\t\t
  3. 11\/2 tsp - baking powder<\/li>\t\t\t\t
  4. 1\/2 tsp - salt<\/li>\t\t\t\t
  5. 1 cup - caster sugar<\/li>\t\t\t\t
  6. 1\/2 tsp - vanilla extract<\/li>\t\t\t\t
  7. 3 large - eggs<\/li>\t\t\t\t
  8. 2 tbsp - Malibu<\/li>\t\t\t\t
  9. 1 cup - canned coconut milk (reserve remaining from can)<\/li>\t\t\t\t
  10. 11\/2 cups - sweetened shredded coconut<\/li>\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t
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    Cream cheese frosting<\/div>\t\t\t
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    1. 2-23\/4 cups - icing sugar<\/li>\t\t\t\t
    2. 115g - soft unsalted butter<\/li>\t\t\t\t
    3. 230g - cream cheese<\/li>\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t
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      1. 1\/2 - 1 cup - Desiccated Coconut<\/li>\t\t\t\t
      2. 12 - coconut wafers<\/li>\t\t\t\t
      3. 6 - Raffellos<\/li>\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t
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        1. 1. Preheat oven to 175\u00b0gas\/160\u00b0fan. Grease and line three 7\" tins or 2 8\" tins.<\/li>\t\t\t\t
        2. 2. In a medium bowl sift the flour, baking powder, and salt.<\/li>\t\t\t\t
        3. 3. In a stand mixer or handheld, beat together the butter for 2 minutes on medium speed. Add in the granulated sugar and beat on medium speed for 5 minutes so it's light and creamy. Add in the vanilla extract. Beat in one egg at a time, beating well after each addition. (scrap down the bowl as needed).<\/li>\t\t\t\t
        4. 3. Add in the sifted flour mixture and coconut milk in three additions on low speed. Add 1\/3 flour, 1\/2 cup milk, 2 tbsp Malibu, 1\/3 flour, 1\/2 cup milk and finish with the remaining flour. Do not overmix.<\/li>\t\t\t\t
        5. 4. Fold in the 11\/2 cups shredded coconut. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 20-25 minutes. Allow the cake to cool completely before decorating.<\/li>\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t
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          1. 1. Whisk the butter for a few mins at a high speed, add the icing sugar on a slow speed at first then once incorporated change to fast speed, make sure it's smooth and free from lumps.<\/li>\t\t\t\t
          2. 2. Add the cream cheese and whip until smooth.<\/li>\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t
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            1. 1. Put one layer of the cake on a cake board or plate then add a quarter of the frosting and spread around the cake. Add 4 crushed wafers, then add the next layer, repeat for the other two layers. Spread the remaining 1\/4 frosting all around the cake. Then add desiccated coconut all around the cake. Then add Raffellos, best to add them when serving the cake as they tend to get dry.<\/li>\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\t\t<\/div>
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              This cake makes me think of Christmas in a hot country lol, 😂 mainly as the cake is covered in desiccated coconut which looks like snow and as it’s a coconut cake it always makes me think of a desert island somewhere. I know, totally odd combination right? I have been Christmas in a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cakes","category-recipes-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}