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Ingredients
Sponge cake
- 50 g unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus extra to grease
- 120 g white sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp natural vanilla extract
- 120 g self-raising flour
Icing
- 30 g unsalted butter
- 160 g full cream milk
- 500 g icing sugar
- 50 g cocoa powder
- desiccated coconut or shredded coconut, to coat
- Nutrition
- per 1 piece
- Calories
- 1567.6 kJ / 373.2 kcal
- Protein
- 5.3 g
- Carbohydrates
- 60 g
- Fat
- 13.1 g
- Saturated Fat
- 8.8 g
- Fibre
- 3.3 g
- Sodium
- 104.3 mg
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