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BN Cuisine: Cooking with Cassava – The Dessert

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A few weeks ago, we started the ‘Cooking with Cassava’ series. The idea is to show that there are a lot of exciting things we can do with food grown locally in Nigeria. Cassava is one of them. {Click here to see the Cassava Starter} & {Here for the Cassava main}

For the dessert, we’re going to show you how to  make the Garri Cookie Cake.
This is a tribute to my boarding school days; I used to make the meanest garri cake back in the day. For those who haven’t had the great pleasure of making/eating garri cake, let explain this milky deliciousness.
No bake Garri cake is made by combining dry garri with a little water, incorporating butter and sugar to form a cakelike structure. A mixture of Butter, sugar and milk is then created and used as icing. This stuff is really good.

Garri cake is definitely the inspiration behind this garri cookie cake, I had a blind taste test and no one guessed the cake contained garri until I told them. If you are not adventurous enough to try the recipe as is substitute garri with cassava flour.

What You Need

1+1/3 cups Garri. Use fine garri or dry blend regular garri in a blender or food processor until smooth.
1+3/4 cups all-purpose Flour
2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1 cup Granulated Sugar
100g Butter
4 Eggs – at room temperature
1+1/2 cups Whole Milk (liquid)
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract (Optional)

How To
Preheat oven to 350 F and generously grease a baking dish of your choice. In a large bowl, thoroughly combine the garri, flour and baking powder. Set aside.

With the help of a mixer or food processor, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs then add in the vanilla.

Garri Cake_Milk Step 1 Garri Cake_Milk Step 2

Add in the flour mix to the creamed mixture and combine well. Finally stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Spoon batter into the prepared pan. Garri Cake Step 3

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven. Cake is thoroughly cooked when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out cleans. Remove cake from oven and set aside to cool.

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For the Coconut milk Topping – You Need
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup condensed milk
⅓ cup coconut milk
2 egg yolks
¼ cup shredded coconut (Optional)

How To
Place the flour and half of the condensed milk in a pan and stir to combine. Add the coconut milk and the remaining condensed milk. Cook over low heat for 10-15 minutes, stirring constantly until thickened. Remove from the heat.
Lightly beat the egg yolks in a bowl, stir into the condensed milk mixture until well combined. Preheat the oven on broil at 500F.

Garri Cake _Milk step 6

Use a straw to make deep holes in the cake spacing about ½ inch apart.

Pour the topping over the cake and spread evenly. Add on the shredded coconut if using. Return the cake to the oven and cook for 3-5 minutes (just until the top is a bit browned).

Remove cake from over, set aside at room temperature until the topping is set and the cake is semi-cooled.

Serve warm with your choice of fruit and other toppings.

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