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Coconut Chai Cake + Coconut Buttercream (x Food Network Canada)

by: Amy on: Feb 19, 2016

Hi. Hello. Hi! How come there are not that many photos? How come the photos do not look the same as usual? Good questions. Because I took them and I tried really hard (lol!). Food Network Canada reached...

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Hi. Hello. Hi! How come there are not that many photos? How come the photos do not look the same as usual? Good questions. Because I took them and I tried really hard (lol!). Food Network Canada reached out to me and asked if I would be willing to create a winter-themed cake along with DIY cake toppers for a new ‘DIY Birthday Party’ feature on their website. I was so anxious about doing this piece for them because I got use to Victor taking my blog photos for me and the idea of being on the other side of the camera was still quite foreign to me. After a whole lot of baking (and stressing), I sent over the content for the blog post and it got published last Tuesday! Yay! You can see the full blog post at the link below. I hope you enjoy the recipe and the photos! Let me know what you think! I have been trying to muster up the confidence to do more photos myself so I can create more content for this blog. Yay or nay? You might have to suffer through some non-Victor (he’s the photography extraordinaire for this blog) quality photos for a while though!

A Whimsical Winter Wonderland Birthday Party (with Food Network)

Coconut Chai Cake with Coconut Buttercream

Makes 1 three-layered 6-inch cake
By Amy

Equipment

  • What you need for the Winter Wonderland Decorations
  • Skewer sticks
  • Assortment of felt, scrapbook paper, card stock
  • Glue
  • Plastic figurine
  • Gold paint (non-toxic)
  • Fresh flowers

Ingredients

Coconut Chai Cake

  • 185 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2-1/4 cup flour
  • 1-1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
  • 200 ml coconut milk
  • 100 ml milk
  • 2 chai teabags, (~2 tbsp chai tea leaves)

Coconut Buttercream

  • 227 g (1 cup) butter, at room temperature
  • 3 cups icing sugar
  • 3 tbsp coconut milk

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F and grease the 6-inch cake pans.
  • Over medium heat, let the two chai tea bags steep in the milk. Once milk comes to a light boil, remove from heat and let tea bags steep for 5-10 minutes. Once milk has cooled down, combine the milk with the coconut milk.
  • In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar together. Gradually add in the eggs, one at a time.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk to combine flour, baking powder, shredded coconut and salt.
  • Add half of the dry ingredients to the butter-sugar mixture and mix on slow to combine.
  • Pour in the milk and coconut milk and add in the remaining of the dry ingredients. Mix until combined.
  • Divide the mixture evenly among the three prepared cake pans and bake for 33-35 minutes. Check for doneness by using a toothpick. If the toothpick comes out clean, you’re good to go! You can also test for doneness by gently pressing your finger on the cake — it should spring back up.
  • For the icing, using a stand mixer with a paddle attachment cream the butter until mixture is pale in colour and fluffy. Add the icing sugar, one cup at a time and alternating between adding the icing sugar and coconut milk, beat until light and fluffy. Add more coconut milk, 1 Tbsp at a time if buttercream is too thick.

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Sweet Comments:

  1. kelsey_the farmer's daughter says

    Feb 21, 2016 at 12:04 am

    Definitely YAY!!! The post looked beautiful <3 you go girl!

    Reply
    • amy h. says

      Feb 22, 2016 at 5:43 pm

      and yay to more baking dates!

  2. Unknown says

    Feb 23, 2016 at 12:07 am

    YAY!!! for sure. We can practice your photog skills when we have our baking playdate =) This cake is gorgeous!

    Reply
  3. Shwetablog says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 6:05 am

    Nice

    Reply
  4. Muhammad Rafey says

    Dec 24, 2018 at 2:43 pm

    aw

    Reply

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