Chocolate-Covered Coconut Torte

This super-sized chocolate and coconut patty looks like a cake and bakes like a cake, but all it takes is one bite to know that it’s more of a candy than a baked good. It has no flour (a boon for the gluten-intolerant) and no leavener. It neither rises nor falls. Rather, the ingredients meld into the richest, dampest, most flavor-sodden confection you are likely to pull from the inner reaches of your slow cooker. You can slow-cook the torte days ahead of serving (it will keep flawlessly, ti