I have just made a lovely mango and coconut cake. It is still chilling in the fridge.

345grams Couscous
448g Mango Juice
Shake of coconut
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1tsp ground ginger or fresh
Drop of Vanilla Extract
One ripe mango

Grease a springform cake tin with either vegan marge or oil. Put some mango slices on the bottom.

Pour juice, into a saucepan. Add ginger and sugar and bring to boil. Lower the heat and add cous cous. Simmer for five minutes and stir until the cous cous has swallowed up all the juice and goes fluffy.

At the fluffy stage add some fruit and coconut. I used chopped dates,raisins and coconut. All organic. Stir it all in.

Finally put the cous cous mixture into the springform tin, spoon it out evenly,cover and put into the fridge to chill until it is cake like.

This also makes a lovely room fragrance when you are cooking it.

Serves six!

Never thought of using Cous Cous in/as a dessert.

I guess it's not that wild though as you can have polenta and mash potato in cakes.

It makes a lovely breakfast with some stewed plums or apricots.

You can use polenta and fruit juice to make the same cake. Quinoa would also work.

I just thought that cous cous would be too grainy or is that one of the features of the cake?

Yes it is a feature as it has no dairy products,next to no sugar unless you count fruit sugar or flour.

It does make couscous more interesting but it has a refined taste. You need to add extra things to it like a compote of fruit or custard or cream to make it palatable if you are not fond of food being too grainy.

Do you think it would work if I substituted the cous cous with polenta or even semolina as the flavours sound divine.

I like my cakes schmooove (just like you studders my petal)

Edit - whoops just saw that polenta should work..... same quantities? and would it need baking rather than chilling?

Hello my star flower, well you want bake it?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...enta-cake.html

I'm going to try this with polenta, a very interesting recipie. I've made orange cake before with polenta and i really like the texture. Mango and coconut sounds great.