Cornmeal Cake With Coconut Milk

A homemade cornmeal cake goes well at any time of year. Excellent for snack time with coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. Hmm… very tasty!

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons of sugar.
• 4 tablespoons of butter
• 6 tablespoons of cornmeal
• 2 tablespoons of wheat flour
• ½ tablespoon of baking powder
• ½ cup coconut milk
• 3 beaten egg yolks
• 3 egg whites
• Butter for greasing
• Wheat flour for sprinkling

Preparation Mode

1. Grease a small rectangular baking dish with butter and sprinkle with flour.
2. Preheat the oven to 170ºC.
3. Sift together the cornmeal, wheat flour and yeast. Reserve.
4. Using a mixer, beat the butter with the sugar until you get a very smooth dough.
5. Add the reserved sifted dry ingredients and continue beating.
6. Remove the bowl from the mixer, add the beaten egg yolks, coconut milk, egg whites and mix gently with a spoon.
7. Pour the dough into the pan and bake for approximately 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the dough comes out clean.
8. Get it out of the oven, let it cool down and unmold it.
9. Cut in squares and serve.

Mom Tips

Serve at snack time.

Approximate yield of 10 servings.