Coconut sponge cake

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• an oven

Turn the oven on 175 degrees C to preheat it.

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• 200 ml milk
• 50 g salted butter

• a pot
• small cooking spoon

Put the milk and butter in a pot, and melt the butter completely in the milk on low - medium heat. Let it cool off afterwards for 5 - 10 minutes.

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• 4 eggs
• 300 g sugar

• an electric hand or stand mixer
• a bowl

Put the eggs and sugar in a bowl, and beat them thick and yellow-pale-ish with an electric mixer for about 5 minutes.

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• ½ vanilla bean

Remove the vanilla seeds from half of a vanilla bean, and mix them in the egg-mixture for a few seconds.

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• 250 g flour
• 2 tsp baking powder

Whisk the flour and baking powder together in a bowl. Sift the flour-mixture into the egg-mixture, and whisk it together with the milk-mixture, untill it's well combined.

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• butter (for greasing)

• a baking pan

Grease a baking pan with butter, pour in the batter, and bake it in the middle of the oven for 25 minutes.

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• 125 g butter (for the coconut topping)
• 50 ml milk (for the coconut topping)
• 250 g brown sugar (for the coconut topping)
• 125 g unsweetened shredded coconut (for the coconut topping)

• a cooking spoon
• a pot

While the cakebatter is baking, start making the coconut topping, by melting the butter, milk, brown sugar and shredded coconut together (low heat).

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After the cakebatter has baked for 25 minutes, pour the topping on the prebaked cakebatter, and put the cake in the oven for another 10 minutes at 225 degrees C.

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• a small knife

After the 10 minutes, check if the cake is baked all the way through, by putting a knife all the way down the the cakwbatter, and if there's raw/semiraw cakebatter on the knife, when you take it out of the cake again, bake the cake for a few more minutes, and check again.