Paradise Cake
- 7/8 cup butter softened
- 1 2/3 cups powdered sugar
- 3/4 cup flour
- 5/8 cup potato starch
- grated lemon peel
- 2 eggs + 2 egg yolks
- 1 11/16 cups coconut milk or milk
- 7/8 cup non dairy cream
- 3 teaspoons acacia honey
- 1 vanilla bean
- 6 7/8 tablespoons cornflour
- 7 15/16 tablespoons granulated sugar
- To prepare the batter, beat the soft butter with a wooden spoon until foamy.
- Incorporate the powdered sugar in two additions.
- Beat the eggs with the 2 egg yolks with a fork in another bowl.
- Add the eggs gradually to the butter mixture, beating until the eggs are completely incorporated and the mixture is creamy and foamy.
- Sift the flour with the potato starch and add it the batter with the grated peel of 1 lemon by folding them carefully.
- Line a 20 centimeter cake pan with wax paper and add the batter.
- Bake at 180C for approximately 1 hour.
- Remove the cake from the oven and cool completely before adding the filling.
- To prepare the filling, place the cornflour and the sugar in a bowl.
- Heat the coconut milk in a medium saucepan and add the seeds from the vanilla bean.
- Pour the coconut milk in the bowl with the cornflour and sugar, beat the mixture with a whisk.
- Place the mixture in the saucepan and bring it to a boil, as soon as it begins to thicken remove it from the heat, allow the mixture to cool, stirring often.
- When the mixture has cooled, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
- Whip the cream with the honey, then incorporate the whipped cream into the coconut cream prepared earlier and use it as a filling for the cake.
butter, powdered sugar, flour, potato starch, lemon peel, eggs , coconut milk, non dairy cream, acacia honey, vanilla bean, cornflour, sugar
Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Paradise-Cake-632295 (may not work)