Coconut cakes with chocolate

These delicious little coconut cakes are simple to make and combined with some melted chocolate the perfect little treat!

Course Cake and cookies

Cuisine Dutch

Keyword chocolate, coconut

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

Servings pieces

Calories 346

Author Simone

Equipment

12 silicone cupcake moulds

Ingredients

125 gr butter melted
80 gram grated coconut
270 gram icing sugar
75 gram all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
5 egg whites

Dark chocolate ganache

150 gr dark chocolate coarsely chopped
125 ml heavy cream

Metric - Us customary

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180˚C/350˚F. Whisk the butter, coconut, sugar, flour, baking powder and egg whites together until well mixed.
Divide across a really well greased muffin tin (125 ml or half a cup per muffin hole roughly) It's best to use silicone cupcake moulds for this.
Place into the oven for about 15-20 minutes or until just done and a wooden skewer comes out clean. Leave to rest for about 2 minutes, turn out onto a rack and leave to cool.
For the glaze stir chocolate and cream together and heat this slowly until melted and smooth.
Leave to cool until just liquid and than spoon over the cooled cakes and eat straight away.

Notes

Keep in mind that turning these cakes out is easiest if you bake them in silicone cupcake moulds. We brushed our muffin tin quite vigorously but they still came out rather difficult, so silicone moulds would be best!

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