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Coconut and Mango Mini Cakes with Mint

Mango dice, fresh grated coconut and sliced mint are folded into a vanilla batter. The small square cakes are baked until their centres are set and cooled before dividing sixteen servings.

  • small bake
  • make ahead

Method

Steps

  1. Step 1

    Wash the fruit first; quantities refer to prepared edible weights. Use fresh coconut flesh with its shell removed; finely grate it. Do not use dried or sweetened coconut for this quantity. Peel the mango and remove its stone; cut the flesh into 5 mm dice. Rinse and finely slice the mint leaves.

  2. Step 2

    Set the oven to 175°C, conventional. Line small square 40 ml metal moulds with parchment cases on two trays.

  3. Step 3

    Cream 150 g butter (softened) with 90 g caster sugar for 2-3 minutes. Gradually beat in 150 g beaten egg, weighed without shell. Mix in 2 tsp vanilla. Use vanilla extract.

  4. Step 4

    Fold in 120 g fresh grated coconut, 250 g mango, 8 g mint.

  5. Step 5

    Combine 220 g all purpose flour. Fold into the fruit mixture until no dry flour remains.

  6. Step 6

    Fill the wells two-thirds full. Bake 25-35 minutes, swapping the two trays after 15 minutes. Bake until set throughout, with no raw batter on a skewer; the centre must also reach at least 74°C. Cover with foil if the surface darkens first.

  7. Step 7

    Cool 10 minutes in the moulds and 10 on a rack. Divide the batch into 16 servings of small cakes. If extra batches are needed, refrigerate waiting batter and add their baking time.

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