Another use of left over bread to make a moorish and decadent dessert. It's my own creation.
Equipment
- 1 square baking tin with loose bottom baking pudding
- 2 mixing bowls for wet and dry ingredients
- 1 whisk to whisk wet ingredients
- 1 measuring cup for cream, and coconut
- 1 teaspoon measuring spices
- 1 sheet baking paper cut for base and sides of tin
- 1 Food processor for blitzing bread slices
- 1 frypan/skillet dry roasting the desiccated coconut
- 1 measuring jug
- 1/4 measuring cup
- 1/2 teaspoon
- 1 Fan forced oven
Ingredients
- 2 cups Desiccated coconut dry roasted in frypan
- 12 slices bread white/brown/grains/crust removed
- 1 cup Caster sugar
- 420 ml Lite coconut cream
- 300 ml Lite thickened cream
- 5 70g eggs
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 1 450g Jar jam of choice I used strawberry jam
- 1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
- `1 teaspoon Ground cardamom
- 1 teaspoon Ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon Ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon Coconut essence
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C fan forced.
- Toast desiccated coconut in a dry pan until golden brown then set aside. Break bread slices and blitz in food processor until crumbs form.
- In a bowl whisk the eggs, butter, sugar, coconut essence and coconut cream until pale. In a separate bowl, add the bread crumbs, spices and thickened cream and mix untll well combined. Add 1.5 cups of desiccated into mixture and mix well.
- Add the wet ingredients to the bread mixture and mix well to combine. Line a square cake tin with baking paper.
- Pour half the batter in to tin, then dollop jam on top. Pour the rest of the batter, shake tin to remove air bubbles and bake in oven for 50 minutes
- Let cool for 10 minutes, flip cake onto a plate, then sprinkle the rest of the toasted coconut over. Let the cake cool for another 20 minutes and serve.
Notes
Tip: You can omit the coconut cream, and desiccated coconut and use all lite cream and toasted almond flakes.
Author: MamaRose
MamaRose believes that food is not just a necessity, but a joy. She enjoys cooking for herself and for others, and she wants to share her passion with the world.
