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Here's another recipe I tried making from the excellent Khmerkromrecipes.com website... num tirk doung, or coconut pound cake. The site states this recipe is from Mott Chrouk (Chau Doc) province. I found this pound cake to be really delish, which I suppose is of little surprise considering that coconut is one of my favorite flavors.

I ended up eating most of my cake throughout the week with my morning espresso, although a portion of it went to the neighbor who is replacing my garage door opener for next to nothing. (A neighborhood handyman who does favors is high on my feed-list.) The recipe follows -- note that I left out egg yolks in my version, and I will probably trying using less sugar next time around as it was very sweet. Perhaps I'll trying baking it with stevia instead? I've been meaning to try this herbal sweetener... does anybody have any experience with stevia they can share, for example a stevia-to-sugar replacement ratio?

4 Eggs
2 Cups all purpose flour
1/2 Cup melted butter
1/2 Cup coconut milk
1/4 Cup fresh or frozen unsweeted, shredded coconut
1 1/2 Cup sugar
2 Tablespoons pure vanilla extract
1/2 Teaspoon baking powder
1/4 Teaspoon salt

1) Preheat oven at 325 degrees.
2) In a mixing bowl, mix melted butter and sugar together.
3) Add eggs, one at a time with butter sugar. Mix well.
4) Add vanilla, baking powder, salt and coconut milk.
4) Blend all purpose flour and shredded coconut.
5) Grease cake pan with butter and sprinkle some flour around the sides of the cake pan.
6) Pour the cake batter in to the cake pan.
7) Bake for 1 1/2 hour.
8) Remove from the oven, wait until cake cools off before taking it out the cake pan.