Do you know sawdust cake?

How to bake the popular sheet cake with the funny name

Created: 05/25/2022, 12:14 p.m

By: Anne Tessin

Desiccated coconut gives the sawdust cake its name.

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Don't let the uninviting name fool you, sawdust cake is a deliciously moist sheet cake with custard that you should try.

Prophet cake, Danube wave, bee sting - some cake creations have strange names, but this one tops some of them: sawdust cake.

That doesn't sound very tasty if you actually have woodwork in mind.

Taking its name from the grated coconut that tops this sheet cake, it's certainly not as dry as its name suggests.

But on the contrary!

Thanks to its juicy chocolate base and vanilla cream,

cake has what it takes to become your favorite cake.

Try the simple recipe quickly.

Sawdust cake with custard and cherries: You need these ingredients

For the chocolate base:

• 250 grams of sugar

• 250 grams of butter

• 6 eggs, size M

• 4 tbsp baking cocoa (you can replace it with drinking cocoa)

• 150 grams of flour

• 1 teaspoon Baking powder

For the cream topping:

• 2 cups of sour cream

• 2 cups of cream

• 2 packets of paradise cream powder (vanilla)

• 4 tbsp sugar

For the coconut icing:

• 100 grams of butter

• 100 g grated coconut

• 100 grams of sugar

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How to bake the sawdust cake with paradise cream

• Preheat your oven to 200 degrees/top heat.

• For the base, first mix the butter with the sugar at the highest level with the hand mixer until the mixture turns white.

  Then stir in the eggs one at a time.

  Take 30 to 60 seconds per egg for this.

• Now mix the baking cocoa, flour and baking powder with a pinch of salt and fold the dry ingredients into the butter and egg mixture.

  But only stir until a dough forms

• Spread the dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the oven setting.

  Allow the chocolate base of the sawdust cake to cool afterwards.

• For the cream topping, whip up the sour cream, cream and paradise cream powder with a hand mixer and then spread the cream on the cooled base.

  
  
  

  Finally, prepare the icing.

  To do this, heat the butter without letting it brown and then mix it with the sugar and grated coconut.

  Then spread the mixture over the cream.

Sour cream, sour cream, crème fraîche: isn't it the same thing?

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cake is ready

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There is also the variant

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To do this, simply spread one or two glasses of morello cherries on the chocolate dough and then bake the base.

The rest of the recipe is as above.

You can also bake the cake in a 26 springform pan.

All you have to do is halve the amount of ingredients.