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Ping (Ping’s Pickings<\/a>) has recently had some difficult moments and since chocolate is a well known infallible mood improver, I thought I would try to cheer her up a bit showing how I have transformed her extraordinary coconut cake recipe into an irresistible coco-choco delight. First of all, those of you who have never seen (or forgotten) Ping’s Coconut Cake<\/a>, must absolutely try it. This effortless cake is one of the most unusual sweet treats I have ever tasted. The first time I baked it, I did it two days in a row, so you can imagine how good it was… Since then\u00a0I have prepared it (my version is slightly modified)<\/a> at least dozen times and never got tired of it. Here is a quick reminder of what my modified version looks like:<\/p>\n I must emphasize here that this chocolate recipe is not an improvement because the original cake is perfect unchanged. It is simply a slightly different version, specially designed for chocolate addicts. As one of them, I have a habit of adding chocolate to various desserts, guided by the thought that one cannot have too many chocolate recipes. This cake could be considered as an alternative to the cooling\u00a0Light Chocolate and Coconut Cream<\/a>\u00a0but maybe more suited for cold seasons that we are approaching, when richer desserts are welcome.<\/p>\n Here once more the mixture of chocolate and coconut hasn’t let me down. Just like its pure coconut version, this cake was moist and closer to a custard or pudding than to a floury cake. Thanks to the dark chocolate it was obviously richer and slightly heavier. I think that this richer version of Ping’s cake will keep me company throughout the hated cold autumn and winter evenings. Thank you so much, Ping, for one more inspiration. I will have a big slice of this cake as a toast to your health, wishing you a prompt recovery and a quick solution of the recent problem!<\/p>\n Click here to see Ping’s original Coconut Cake<\/a> or\u00a0here to see her banana version<\/a>.<\/p>\n TIPS: Like Ping, I like moderately sweet desserts, but if you have a very sweet tooth, add 50% more sugar.<\/p>\n This cake improves after a night spent in the fridge and tastes definitely better when served very cold.<\/p>\n Preparation: 1 hour (+ not obligatory, but strongly advised one night in the fridge)<\/em><\/p>\n Ingredients (10 x 20 cm baking tin):<\/em><\/p>\n 3 heaped tablespoons (about 1\/4 cup) flour<\/em><\/p>\n 100 g (1\/2 cup) sugar<\/em><\/p>\n 70 g (1 cup) desiccated coconut (+ some more to sprinkle over the cake)<\/em><\/p>\n 2 eggs<\/em><\/p>\n 60 g melted butter<\/em><\/p>\n 100 g (about 3,4 oz) bitter, dark chocolate (min. 70% cocoa)<\/em><\/p>\n pinch of salt<\/em><\/p>\n 125 ml (1\/2 cup) coconut milk<\/em><\/p>\n 125 ml (1\/2 cup) cow cream (liquid, not cr\u00e8me fra\u00eeche)<\/em><\/p>\n Preheat the oven to 180\u00b0C.<\/p>\n Melt the chocolate in the microwave (in several short stages to control the melting process and avoid overcooking) or in a hot water bath (putting a metal bowl over a pan with hot water and stirring the chocolate constantly) or simply in a pan at very low heat (this is my favourite method, but quite risky: if the chocolate is overheated it can no longer be used.<\/p>\n Combine all the ingredients in a bowl.<\/p>\n Grease a baking tin or line it with baking paper.<\/p>\n Pour the batter into the tin and bake for about 40-50 minutes.<\/p>\n The cake can be sprinkled with desiccated coconut before serving.<\/p>\n It can be served as soon as it cools down, but is definitely best refrigerated overnight.<\/p>\n Ping (Ping’s Pickings) has recently had some difficult moments and since chocolate is a well known infallible mood improver, I thought I would try to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[203,7,132,55,6],"tags":[212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11809"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12750,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions\/12750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cococakep1.png\" "\\"cococakep\\"")
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