Coconut tea cake

Frack yeah, I made coconut bundt cake last week.  It's awesome. I don't know why, but I've been eating so much coconut-- coconut oil, coconut ice cream, and coconut milk.  While it might have a lot of saturated fat, it tastes pretty good and it's the good kind of fat.  If you have coconut oil or butter in the morning with coffee or whatever, you will burn more fat throughout the day.

This is also my food blog debut aka my personal recipe book.  Not going to lie, I'm probably going to post a lot of things that I've already made over the past year or so, but who cares? Some of what I'll post is good for health conscious or lactose-intolerant people (like me) and others will be loaded with butter, milk, and all that good stuff.  This recipe itself can be made lactose free by replacing all the butter with coconut oil.  I did half and half. 

(PS. You have to click read more at the end of each post to get the recipe)

coconut milk and butter = ultimate combination

looks like a huge donut

This is a win.

Recipe as adapted by Dorie Greenspan: 
Serves 10-12 people.

2 cups white whole wheat flour (or whatever flour)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
3/4 tsp cardamom
(I added 1/4 tsp ish nutmeg as well)
Pinch of salt
4 eggs (room temperature)
1 cup lite unsweetened coconut milk (or full-fat if you're into that)
4 tbsp butter or coconut oil (I used 2 of each)
2 tsp dark rum (I used Captain Morgan Spiced Rum)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup turbinado sugar  (the original calls for 2 cups, but I already eat enough sugar as it is).
3/4 cup unsweetened coconut flakes

Directions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 350 degree with the rack at the center of the oven.
2. Get two bowls. Sift the flour, baking powder, spices and salt in one.
3. Heat up the coconut milk and the butter/oil in a pan. If you're lazy like I usually am, let the microwave heat it up. 
4. In the other bowl, whisk 4 eggs together with the turbinado sugar. Do this for 3 minutes. It hurts if you have to do it manually like I did but it's worth it. Otherwise, just use the high setting button on the handheld/stand mixer. If you use white sugar, it should double in volume.
5. Add the vanilla and rum.  
6. Add the flour mix to the sugar mix and mix until just blended. If you overmix, that's bad. 
7. Mix the coconut flakes until just blended.
8. Now add the butter/milk mixture carefully and don't just dump it all in.  The mixture will get very wet/moist (lol).
9. Pour the mixture into a 10-12 inch bundt pan.
10. Put it in the oven for 55-60 minutes, or until putting a fork in the center comes out clean.
11. Cool it for 10 minutes before taking the cake out of the pan. Let it cool to room temperature.

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