Coconut Cake Recipe...my sister's favourite...

Ingredients:
 1-1/2 cups unsweetened desiccated coconut 
 100 gms unsalted butter, softened 
 2 cups all-purpose flour (Maida) 
 1 tsp baking powder 
 1 tsp vanilla essence 
 11/3 cups sugar 
 1 cup whole milk 
 1/2 tsp salt 
 3 eggs
 Method:

	Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C or 347 degrees F.
•	Now grease a cake pan and line bottom with parchment paper.
•	Grease paper and dust pan with flour.
•	Sieve together flour, baking powder and salt.
•	Beat butter with mixer till creamy.
•	Gradually beat in sugar on medium speed till pale and smooth.
•	Add vanilla essence to it, stir.
•	Beat in eggs.
•	Beat in flour mixture and milk in batches over slow speed.
•	Raise the speed to medium and beat batter 1-1/2 minutes till soft, now fold in the coconut.
•	Spoon batter into the cake pan and spread uniformly.
•	Bake cake in the middle of the oven till golden brown or till a tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Bake for about 45 to 50 minutes at the temp of 175 C.
•	Cool cake in the pan for about 1 hour.
•	Remove paper and invert onto a rack to cool completely.
	Coconut Cake is ready to serve. "I mix the butter and sugar using a spoon in a big bowl. To beat the eggs I use a mixer( the one we use to grind tomato etc), beat it till it is fluffy with a light yellow colour. Rest all the mixing is done in the bowl itself using a spoon...but this is a lot of hard work:)"