Exotic Chocolate Cake

Name: Exotic Chocolate Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 175 g (6 oz) caster sugar; 5 large eggs (sizes 1), separated; 175 g (6 oz) plain chocolate, broken up; 250 g (8 oz) cream cheese; 75 g (3 oz) icing sugar, sifted; ¼ teaspoon salt; 50 g (2 oz) creamed coconut, crumbled; 125 ml (4 fl oz) milk; Icing sugar; 4 tablespoons warm water; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 rounded teaspoons ground cinnamon; 2 rounded tablespoons cocoa powder

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cook's Companion

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1991

About

I have called this exotic because the cream cheese filling is flavoured with coconut milk — a classic flavouring for sweets in the Far East. The combination of chocolate, cream cheese and coconut milk is truly superlative.

Ingredients

For the Cake

175 g (6 oz) plain chocolate, broken up
5 large eggs (sizes 1), separated

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C, 350°F, Gas Mark 4. Grease two 19-20 cm (7½-8 in) deep sandwich tins