Cookbook:Coconut Cream and Pound Cake with Moscatel (Bienmesabe)

Coconut Cream and Pound Cake with Moscatel (Bienmesabe)
Category	Cake recipes
Servings	10
Difficulty

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This is a popular and tasty dessert.

Ingredients

• 8 coconuts
• ½ cup (120 g) of white granulated sugar
• 9 egg yolks
• 3–4 pound cakes (biscochuelo) cut in ½-inch slices
• 1 bottle of moscatel wine
• Powdered cinnamon

Procedure

1. Grate the coconut meat. Separate the flesh from the milk of the coconut.
2. Combine the coconut flesh with the sugar, reserving the milk. Cook until a thick syrup is made. Remove from heat and to allow to rest.
3. Beat the yolks with a little bit of the coconut milk, then whisk this into the syrup. Mix well and return to the heat.
4. Stir constantly until it thickens. The idea is to obtain a rather thick coconut custard.
5. Remove custard from the heat and let cool.
6. Soak the cake pieces in wine.
7. In a glass dish, layer the coconut custard and the cake slices. Continue alternating biscochuelo layers with the coconut custard.
8. Sprinkle the top generously with cinnamon.