Ingredients for cake:
Butter 175 grams
Caster sugar 6 ozs
Eggs 3
Flour 1 ½ cup
Baking powder 1 ½ tsp
Nutmeg grinded ½ tsp
Desiccated coconut ¾ cup
Coconut cream quarter cup
Coconut essence ½ tsp
Ingredients for soaking:
Coconut milk ½ cup
Ingredients for frosting:
Butter 100 grams
Icing sugar 1 ½ cup
Coconut cream quarter cup
Coconut essence few drops
Pineapples jam 5 tbsp
Flake coconut toasted ½ cup for decoration
Method:
Greased and line to 8 inches round pan, sieved flour and baking powder add in nutmeg, beat butter and sugar till light and crème. Beat in eggs one at a time with a tablespoon of flour. Add coconut essence, finally fold in sifted flour, Coconut cream and desiccated coconut. Pour in to prepared pans bake on 180 degrees Centigrade for 30 minutes. Remove and cool. Put on cake on a cake platter soak with coconut milk, spread with pineapple jam and half butter cream. Put the other cake on top soak with coconut milk spread with remaining butter cream. Decorate top with toasted flak coconut.
Method for coconut butter cream:
Beat butter until double in volume, add icing sugar and continue beating. Lastly add essence and coconut cream