Coconut Cake with Mango a.k.a. The Swedish Flag Cake
This cake almost gave me a heart attack but it all turned out well in the end.
After taking it out of the oven and allowing it to cool in the tin for 5 minutes, I proceeded to lift the cake out of the tin, using the baking paper which I had layered underneath, and onto a wire tray. Next thing I know, one corner crumbled and fell off, with the rest of it threatening to do fall to pieces too.
Oh no! Did I not have enough eggs in the recipe?
I managed to get the rest of it onto the tray and left it overnight, praying that it would be okay to ice the next day.
First thing in the morning, I gingerly touched the cake to find that I had made a wise decision in leaving it alone. I would have had to cut the square cake into a rectangular form anyway so the missing corner gave me a good starting point. The cake was iced with whipped cream then decorated with desiccated coconut (dyed blue) and mango cubes to resemble a Swedish Flag cake.
As you can probably guess, it was for a birthday celebration and my friend, H, so loves sharing her Swedish heritage that it was the most appropriate cake I could think of making.
I must have been on a roll with coconut-mango that weekend because mum’s birthday cake ended up being a coconut, mango and passionfruit pavlova. I think I must be looking forward to the sunshine and blue skies!
October 11th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
That Sweedish flag cake is so cool!
October 11th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Hey Cin,
Looks great!! Couldn’t even tell that there had been any drama with the cake; well done! Mmm… I’ve been eating a lot of mangoes too – looking forward to summer!
xox Sarah
October 12th, 2009 at 7:26 am
The cake look gorgeous and I seriously will like to have a piece now. What a sweet idea!
October 14th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Hi
Must appreciate ur beautiful cake , u have rally arranged the mangoes so well !!!
Kudos …
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Do sneak a peek when time permits .
- Smita
October 24th, 2009 at 5:12 am
ouh that’s really a great things, looks nice and delicious, really a great job
October 25th, 2009 at 4:19 am
That is a good combination.
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October 28th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Wow, very nicely done! The cake looks beautiful. I especially like the blue dyed coconut!
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
You’re extraordinary! What a find your blog is! I have been reading through it instead of doing what every true-blooded Australian is doing this afternoon í.e. watching the Melbourne Cup. Indira
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Your cake looks so delish! and the flag is really great!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
This one is superb, Love in the eyes!
So delicious!
Yummy!
December 24th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
hi!!!
so was the cake made out of pavlova? the cake looks really pretty!!
such a good idea.. using flag as decoration!!
December 30th, 2009 at 4:02 am
Wow cake was too yummy… I put some Patan ghee into it and the taste improved tremendously…
January 1st, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Very cool cake idea. I’m sure it was well appreciated.