Prestigio (Bounty) Cake

Prestigio is a Brazilian chocolate produced by Nestle. It has a coconut filling enrobed with milk chocolate and in the UK the similar one is Bounty chocolate.  I made this cake for the first time for my husband’s birthday and as expected it was a hit, purely out of luck as I had invented the filling on the same day (ufa!).
This cake is rich, chocolaty and delicious. A real treat!!

Cake ingredients:

115g raw cane sugar
4 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
170g flour
1 tsp baking soda
90ml vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 tsp cider vinegar
200ml cold water

Method:

1 – Mix the sugar, cocoa, salt, flour and soda in a mixing bowl.

2 – Add the oil, vanilla essence and vinegar and pour cold water over the mixture.
3 – Combine well with a fork, but do not beat.
4 – Pour into a greased with oil and flour round spring form baking tray and bake it at 180C for 20-30 minutes.

When ready wait for the bake to cool down before removing from the baking tray and repeat the recipe

Filling ingredients:
½ can of coconut milk
1 cup desiccated coconut
1 tbsp corn flour
5 tbsp sugar

Method:

1 – Mix 3 tbsp of the coconut milk with the cornflour 
2 - Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan and bring them to the boil slowly, stirring constantly.

3 – Let it cool down a bit before you apply on top of the first cake.

Icing ingredients:
55g vegan margarine
30g unsweetened cocoa powder
4 tbsp almond milk (you can also soya milk)
140g sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence

Method:

1 – Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan and bring them to the boil slowly, stirring constantly.

2 – Remove from the heat and beat until cold. Add the vanilla essence and spread the icing on the cake

Enjoy!!