Cakes

Coconut cake with jam

From
Stella
Oven
200 °C200 °C (400 °F)

Ingredients

  • 300 g butter, softened11 oz butter, softened
  • 300 g sugar11 oz sugar
  • 300 g plain flour11 oz plain flour
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 150 g desiccated coconut5½ oz desiccated coconut

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200°C and grease two tins.Heat the oven to 400 °F and grease two tins.
  2. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time. Mix the flour, baking powder and coconut and stir them in.
  3. Divide the dough between two 20–24 cm tins and bake on the second-lowest shelf at 200°C for about 20 minutes.Divide the dough between two 8–9 in tins and bake on the second-lowest shelf at 400 °F for about 20 minutes.
  4. Let the layers cool, then sandwich them together with jam.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
(Stella)
Kókoskaka m/sultu.
300gr. smjör — 300gr. sykur 300gr. hveiti — 3 egg 2 tsk. lyftid. — 2 1/2 dl. m 150gr. Kókosmjöl —
Tvö 20-24cm. form, næst neðsta Rim 200°c, ca. 20 min.