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| Food - Recipes | |
| Tuesday, 24 January 2006 | |
Chocolate coconut cake A recent posting on Chocolate & Zucchini prompted me to revisit a very nice chocolate cake recipe I was given by a house guest last year. The recipe “One-in-a-Hundred Fudge Cake” by Iris Schneider originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times and it’s a great cake because you mix it all in one bowl, like Clotilde’s above cake, only with a stand-mixer, not a food processor (which I admittedly have never tried, even though it is a preferred method of Nigella Lawson).I took the One-In-A-Hundred fudge cake and adapted it to a few things I have learned from Marcel Desaulniers (brown sugar in chocolate cake batters), Lisa Yockelson (chocolate extract for more intense chocolate flavor), Martha Stewart (the use of coconut milk in coconut cakes), and Shirley Corriher (the use of baking soda in cakes). The result is an intense chocolate flavor, with a texture some may define as a cakey brownie (especially if refrigerated), others may define it as a very moist dense cake. Some people may also try the recipe and decide they’d like to tinker with it to produce a less dense crumb like the Choco coco cake by Clotilde. Here’s the recipe which produced the cake squares in the pictures. Chocolate Coconut Cake
Preheat oven to 350F/180C. Butter, flour, and line with parchment paper a 9x13x2 inch baking pan. Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt in the bowl of the mixer. Stir in the sugars and coconut. Add sour cream, coconut milk, eggs, butter, vanilla, and chocolate extract. Attach bowl to mixer and start mixing on low to combine ingredients. Increase to medium speed and mix for 3 more minutes. Spoon batter into pan and smooth surface. Bake for approximately 40 minutes (check it at 35). It’s ready when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack. 
Hey! You can't eat those, little guy! Chocolate is poisonous to dogs!
(Design aside: When I think of chocolate, I think of dark, and when I think of coconut, I think of white, hence the choice to style the photo with Javier Mariscal's Eulalia chair from the Los Mueblos Amorosos line by Moroso in the background, on top of the Noguchi table, with a black lacquer base, Vitra production. Crash! (the Border Terrier in the picture) decided to supervise the photo shoot, just in case we changed our minds about giving him a piece of cake.)
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