Danish Dream Cake

4.54 from 80 votes

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!

Prep Time10

Cook Time30

Total Time40

Course: Desserts

Cuisine: Danish

Keyword: coconut cake, danish cake, danish dream cake, dream cake, dutch cake

Servings:

Author: Courtney O'Dell

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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