Where Can I Get Coconut Essence From For The Tropical Chocolate Cake?

Our answer

Nigella's Tropical Chocolate Cake (from FEAST) is a chocolate cake that is sweet and moist thanks to the addition of canned pinapple. The tender sponge enhanced with a coconut-flavoured marshmallow-like frosting.

The frosting is flavoured with coconut essence and sometimes this is labelled as coconut food flavouring. We have seen this flavouring for sale in some larger branches of UK supermarkets. If you have a good local cake decorating store then you should also be able to find it there. Otherwise, there are multiple vendors online, including cake decoration specialists. Some online Asian food suppliers also stock coconut flavouring.