Raspberry Coconut Trifle

Total Time: 5 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 5 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 200 g butter, softened
• 50 g unsweetened desiccated coconut, soaked in water for 1 hour and then squeezed dry
• 200 g demerara sugar
• 200 g all-purpose flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 4 eggs
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 2 tablespoons coconut milk
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 5 tablespoons icing sugar
• 398 ml ready-to-serve custard (i used pc devon custard)
• 398 ml coconut milk, less the 2 tbsp. needed for the cake
• 4 tablespoons coconut rum, such as malibu
• 1 lime, juice and zest of
• 300 g frozen raspberries, defrosted (or use fresh if in season)
• 1 1/2 cups seedless raspberry jam
• 3/4 cup whipping cream

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 grease and line a 9" springform pan.
• 3 beat all the cake ingredients together until smooth, pour into the pan, and smooth the top.
• 4 bake for 40 to 45 minutes until golden and risen.
• 5 let cool completely.
• 6 meanwhile, whisk the cornstarch and 2 tablespoons icing sugar into the remaining coconut milk.
• 7 bring the custard to a boil, then whisk in the coconut milk mixture.
• 8 keep whisking until it come to a boil and is fairly thick.
• 9 pour into a bowl, cover immediately with plastic wrap, and let cool.
• 10 mix the coconut rum with the lime zest and juice and 2 tablespoons of the icing sugar.
• 11 crush half of the raspberries and mix together with the raspberry jam, then fold in the remaining whole berries.
• 12 cut the cooled cake into cubes and put a layer on the bottom of your serving bowl.
• 13 sprinkle with some of the rum mixture, then top with some of the raspberry mixture.
• 14 repeat, but this time with the custard.
• 15 keep layering, alternating fruit layer with custard layer, until all the ingredients are used up.
• 16 whip the cream with the remaining icing sugar until soft peaks form, then spread over the top of the trifle.
• 17 refrigerate for at least 4 hours - the longer it stands, the more the flavours mingle.