Asian coconut and pear cake with coconut ginger icing – Food & Home Magazine

Asian coconut and pear cake with coconut ginger icing – Food & Home Magazine

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Taste the fusion of Asian flavors in this delicious coconut and pear cake, paired with a coconut ginger icing. Perfect for tea parties!

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Ingredients

  • PEARS
  • 500g sugar
  • 2 litres water
  • 2 lemon grass stalks, crushed
  • 5 pears, peeled and cored
  • CAKE
  • 650g cake flour
  • 5ml (1 tsp) baking powder
  • 5ml (1 tsp) bicarbonate of soda
  • a pinch of salt
  • 450g sugar
  • 250g butter, at room temperature
  • 250ml (1 cup) coconut cream
  • 4 large eggs, separated
  • 5ml (1 tsp) vanilla extract
  • 250ml (1 cup) buttermilk
  • ICING
  • 750g cream cheese
  • 250g icing sugar
  • 80g desiccated coconut
  • a pinch of ground ginger
  • black sesame seeds, to garnish
  • fortune cookies, to garnish
  • gold leaf, to garnish (see Cook’s Tips below), optional

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