Vegan Coconut & Mango Cake
Vegan Coconut Cake and Mango Frosting — a Dawn Foods recipe in 2 components, makes 4 × 8" round tins. Uses Dawn Foods Flavouring Compounds, Coconut – 1 kg and Dawn Foods Flavouring Compounds, Mango – 1 kg.
- mixing time (cake, slow speed)
- 1 min
- mixing time (cake, medium speed)
- 2 min
- deposit weight per tin (cake)
- 500 g
- baking temperature (cake)
- 175 °C
- baking time (cake)
- 30-35 min
- mixing time (frosting, fast speed)
- 3 min
- mixing time (frosting, further, fast speed)
- 1 min
- mixing time (frosting, after compound, fast speed)
- 30 s
Ingredients
Vegan Coconut Cake
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Dawn Vegan Plain Creme Cake Mix | 1200 g |
| Water | 550 g |
| Vegetable oil | 240 g |
| Desiccated coconut | 40 g |
| Dawn Foods Flavouring Compounds, Coconut – 1 kgDawn Coconut Compound | 90 g |
Mango Frosting
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Icing sugar | 1000 g |
| 100% vegetable shortening / margarine | 500 g |
| Dawn Foods Flavouring Compounds, Mango – 1 kgDawn Mango Compound | 90 g |
| Yellow colouring |
Method
- Vegan Coconut Cake
Add all ingredients to a mixing bowl fitted with a beater and mix for 1 minute on slow speed and then 2 minutes on medium speed.
- Vegan Coconut Cake
Deposit 500 g of the mixture into prepared 8" round tins.
- Vegan Coconut Cake
Bake at 175°C for 30-35 minutes.
- Mango Frosting
Sieve the icing sugar.
- Mango Frosting
Place the icing sugar and fat into a mixing bowl fitted with a beater and mix on slow speed until a paste has formed.
- Mango Frosting
Mix on fast speed for 3 minutes, scrape down and mix for a further 1 minute.
- Mango Frosting
Add the Mango Compound and colour as needed and mix in on slow speed. Scrape down and mix for 30 seconds on fast speed.
- Mango Frosting
Additional water can be added if the frosting is stiffer than required.
Assembly: Place one of the cooled coconut cake bases onto a cake board and spread with a thick layer of the mango frosting. Place a second cake base on top and coat this with more of the mango frosting. Decorate with a sprinkling of toasted desiccated coconut.
Dawn Foods recipe. Quantities and method as published by the manufacturer for its customers; test the formula under your own conditions before production.