Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake (Print Version)

# Ingredients:

→ Cake

01 - 2 cups regular flour (250g)
02 - 2 cups white sugar (400g)
03 - 3/4 cup plain cocoa powder (60g)
04 - 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda (9g)
05 - 1 teaspoon salt (6g)
06 - 1 cup lukewarm water (240g)
07 - 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules (2g, optional)
08 - 1/2 cup buttermilk at room temp (120g)
09 - 1/2 cup room temp sour cream (128g)
10 - 1 cup melted and cooled unsalted butter (226g)
11 - 2 teaspoons vanilla flavor (8g)
12 - 2 large room temp eggs (112g)
13 - 1/2 cup tiny chocolate bits (90g, optional)

→ Coconut-Pecan Topping

14 - 1/2 cup canned milk (125g)
15 - 2 large yolks from eggs (36g)
16 - 2/3 cup brown sugar pressed down (133g)
17 - 1/4 cup plain butter (56g)
18 - 1/2 teaspoon salt (3g)
19 - 1 cup sugary coconut shreds (100g)
20 - 1 cup pecans chopped up (110g)
21 - 1 teaspoon vanilla drops (4g)

→ Chocolate Glaze

22 - 1/2 cup chips of chocolate (90g)
23 - 1/3 cup thick cream (80g)

# Instructions:

01 - Heat oven to 350°F. Oil up a 10-inch Bundt pan. Mix all dry stuff together. Stir coffee into warm water.
02 - Put buttermilk, sour cream, cooled melted butter and vanilla into coffee water. Then add your eggs.
03 - Dump wet stuff into dry stuff and stir till smooth. Add chocolate bits if you want them. Pour it all in the pan.
04 - Cook for 45-55 minutes until a stick comes out with just a few bits. Let it sit 15 minutes in the pan before taking it out.
05 - Mix milk, yolks, sugar, butter and salt and cook till thick. Add coconut, pecans and vanilla and fold together.
06 - Pour warm cream on chocolate pieces, wait a bit, then mix till smooth. Spread coconut mix on cake and drizzle chocolate over it.

# Notes:

01 - Works fine in bread pans or tiny Bundts too
02 - Keeps in freezer up to 1 month
03 - Always keep stirring topping so eggs don't clump