How do I make it?

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1. Soak the dried coconut flakes in coconut milk for 1 hour

2. When the hour is up, squeeze 1 cup of coconut milk out of the mixture. You can keep that coconut milk for use in another recipe or for use in the frosting

3. Preheat oven to 350F.

4. Line a cakepan with parchment paper

5. Set the drained coconut aside while you work on the batter.

6. Melt the butter in microwave

7. Mix the butter, sugar (or sugar replacement), eggs, vanilla in a mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes .Scrape down the sides of the mixer

8. Add the protein powder and coconut flour and beat on medium-high for 2 mins

9. In the end just add the coconut from step 5 and mix well. Do not blend in the mixer

10. Pour the mixture in to the lined pan and use a spatula or spoon to spread it in to an even layer

11. Put it in the oven. While the cake bakes we can prepare for the custard

12. In a pot boil at least 2 cups of water. The water should be enough to provide a water bath to the custard's baking dish. It should completely submerge the baking dish from outside till the level of custard on the inside of the baking dish

13. In the meantime take a blender and add sugar, eggs, milk and vanilla extract and churn on high speed

14. Take a baking dish for the custard and pour the custard mixture

15. Take a bigger oven safe container and place the baking dish inside the container

16. Now carefully pour the hot water in the big outer container while making sure that it does not overflow into the custard baking dish. Make sure water level on the outside reaches the custard level on the inside

17. Bake for about 30 mins at the same temperature as the cake - 350F. At the end of 30 mins your custard will be absolutely set. Do not worry of the top of custard is slightly brown

18. Once done take it out and let it cool down for at least 30 mins.

19. Let both the cake and custard cool down completely

20. While cake and custard are cooling, we can prepare the frosting

21. Mix coconut milk, softened cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in a blender for 2 mins

22. I prefer to trim the sides of the cake to make the cake evenly shaped

23. Cut the cake exactky in half

24. Now start with one half of the vanilla coconut cake and spread all of the custard on the top. And spread it evenly

25. Now place the other half of the vanilla coconut cake

26. Finally spread some yummy frosting to top off the cake

27. If you wish you can also apply some frosting on the sides of the cake. For that you might need to make more frosting. Follow the same recipe (step 21) in term of proportion to make your frosting.

28. If you would like to make some design on the cake, take a zip lock.

29. Make some additional frosting using the frosting recipe from above - step 21

30. Add the frosting into the zip lock and seal the lock.

31. Now cut a small chunk of one of the corners of the zip lock to make a hole for the frosting.

32. Put some pressure on the top and make your own designs on the cake

33. Serve your lemon custard cake with Love