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  • Coconut Poke Cake

    Coconut Poke Cake

    Searching for the perfect dessert for your lunch or dinner party? Our delightful Coconut Poke Cake is here to save the day.

    Make this deliciously easy coconut poke cake for dinner guests

    If you’re not sure what a poke cake is, it is, quite literally, a cake you poke holes into. Once you do this, you can pour in any filling of your choice. It can be a chocolate sauce, strawberry cream, or simply condensed milk. This step won’t take more than 5 minutes and it guarantees that every bite will be rich with flavor.

    Make this deliciously easy coconut poke cake for dinner guests

    Sounds good, right? Here’s what you’ll need for Coconut Poke Cake:

    Coconut Poke Cake
    Chocolate cake, caramel sauce, and a cream cheese topping all flavored with coconut for a delightfully easy dessert.
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    Cake
    1. 3 eggs
    2. 200 ml coconut milk
    3. 50 g melted dark chocolate
    4. 125 g butter (room temperature)
    5. 150 g brown sugar
    6. 130 g all-purpose flour
    7. 3 tbsp cocoa powder
    8. 2 tsp baking soda
    9. 40 g desiccated coconut
    Caramel
    1. 400 ml sweetened condensed milk
    2. 50 g butter
    3. 1/4 tsp salt
    Coconut Cream Cheese
    1. 350 g cream cheese
    2. 50 g butter
    3. 50 ml maple syrup
    4. 5 tbsp of thick coconut milk
    5. 30 g desiccated coconut
    6. Roasted coconut to garnish
    Instructions
    1. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees Celsius (400 degrees Fahrenheit).
    2. Begin with the cake base. Crack the eggs into a bowl and mix in the coconut milk, dark chocolate, butter, and sugar.
    3. In a separate bowl, mix all the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and desiccated coconut.
    4. Combine the dry ingredient mixture with the wet ingredients and mix thoroughly.
    5. Bake for around 20-30 minutes. Be sure to keep an eye on it, especially after the 20-minute mark. To check if done, perform the toothpick test.
    6. Poke holes all over the cake using a straw.
    7. Prepare the caramel filling. In a pan, heat the butter and wait for it to melt. Once melted, pour in the condensed milk.
    8. Over medium heat, let it simmer for approximately 15 minutes. Keep stirring until it thickens and resembles the golden brown color of caramel.
    9. Turn the heat off and slowly pour the caramel into the holes. Set the cake aside to cool for about an hour.
    10. Prepare the cream cheese. In a bowl, combine all the cream cheese ingredients and keep in the fridge to cool for half an hour.
    11. Slather the cream cheese generously over the cake.
    12. Garnish the cake with roasted golden coconut bits.
    13. Cut out a slice and enjoy!
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    Author Bio: Callum is the head of content at Cheese Curds. They are an Australian based dairy product manufacturer that specialise in the B2B market. When he is not creating content online, he’s in the kitchen experimenting with different flavours and food combinations.

    Make this deliciously easy coconut poke cake for dinner guests


  • Book Club: The Rent Collector by Camron Wright + Banana Slice Bar Recipe

    Book Club: The Rent Collector by Camron Wright + Banana Slice Bar Recipe

    If you haven’t had a chance to read The Rent Collector by Camron Wright yet, put it on your list!

    The Rent Collector by Camron Wright I thought it would be fun this year if I shared a book every month that I’m reading with my local book club. If you happen to be local and want a good book club to join, let me know! I’m a bit late getting started, but you all don’t mind overlapping some books each month right? 

    In January I hosted our club. We were discussing The Rent Collector by Camron Wright. This is a book I highly encourage everyone to read! It was my first taste of author Camron Wright, and I got hooked. Shortly after reading this one, I borrowed The Orphan Keeper because I needed more of this type of storytelling. 

    Storytelling. The finest kind is what you will find when reading The Rent Collector. Camron Wright based The Rent Collector off a documentary his son filmed called River of Victory. The book takes the real struggles and story of the family in this documentary and fictionalizes them just enough to fill in gaps and do what a good story does – grab at our emotions and pull us in. 

     The Rent Collector by Camron Wright

    Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working.

    Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money – a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past. The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one womans journey to save her son and another womans chance at redemption. It demonstrates that even in a dump in Cambodia – perhaps especially in a dump in Cambodia – everyone deserves a second chance. 

    The Rent Collector by Camron Wright and Banana Slice Bars. Since I was hosting Book Club, I had to have a snack to share. I recalled that I had a Cambodian Cookbook – not sure why I have one – and started browsing through that. This recipe for Banana Slice was the perfect sharable treat, and they served well with Coconut Ice Cream. 

    Along with the bars and ice cream, I whipped up a mango pineapple drink – diced mango and pineapple blended well. Add a bit of Stevia and lots of water. 

    We had a pretty nice evening discussing different aspects of the book. The characters, and what was real verse fiction. Since I had read the book on my phone – thank you Hoopla – I missed out on seeing photos of the family. Luckily one lady had brought her copy and I got to connect even more with this family through their photos. 

    Banana Slice
    Taste Cambodia while discussing The Rent Collector at your next book club.
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    Ingredients
    1. 3 bananas, mushed
    2. 2 eggs
    3. 3/4 cup rice flour*
    4. 3/4 cup brown sugar
    5. 1 cup coconut milk
    6. pinch of salt
    7. 2 egg yolks
    Instructions
    1. Preheat the oven to 350F
    2. Mix the rice flour with the bananas.
    3. Mix in the brown sugar
    4. Add coconut milk and whole eggs. Stir until well combined.
    5. Pour into a 9×13 baking pan.
    6. Bake for 10 minutes.
    7. Whip the egg yolks. Brush on top of the bars.
    8. Bake for another 10 minutes.
    9. Let cool.
    Notes
    1. *I used a gluten free flour from Pillsbury. It is partially made with rice flour.
    Adapted from Nyum Bai!
    Adapted from Nyum Bai!
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    The above recipe came from the book Nyum Bai! If you would like to purchase a copy to enjoy more Cambodian foods, consider purchasing from the Green Gecko Project as they put all the proceeds back into helping kids get off the streets in Cambodia. 

    Now this is a book club, so I feel the need to ask a question. If you have read the book, I’d love to know your thoughts 

    Do you think Sopeap was looking for redemption? Or did it just fall in her lap?

    Next book discussion will be When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi