Danish Dream Cake
Danish Dream Cake - Coconut Caramel Cake - is a light, springy cake with decadent coconut caramel topping, is an easy, delicious dessert that is a crowd pleaser! This Coconut Caramel Cake is based off a traditional Danish Cream Cake recipe as tasted on my travels to Copenhagen Denmark!
Servings: 12
Calories: 404kcal
Ingredients
- 250 g flour
- 250 g sugar
- 4 tbsp butter
- 3 eggs
- 2 dl milk
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla
For the topping:
- 8 tbsp butter
- ½ dl milk
- 200 g brown sugar
- 100 g coconut flakes sweetened
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a small bowl, mix flour and baking powder.
- In a large bowl, whisk eggs and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Melt butter in a small saucepan and remove from heat, adding milk in as you pull it off the stove.
- Add milk and butter to egg and sugar, whisk to incorporate fully.
- Add vanilla.
- Add flour and baking soda, and fold.
- Pour into parchment lined 9 x 13 baking pan or silicone cake pan.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- While cake is baking make the topping, melt butter in saucepan.
- Stir in milk and brown sugar and let boil about 1 minute.
- Remove from heat and stir in coconut.
- Remove cake from oven (it should be lightly browned and firmed up.)
- Pour topping over cake and return to oven to bake another 10 minutes.
- Let cool slightly and serve.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 404kcal | Carbohydrates: 60g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 81mg | Sodium: 243mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 43g