Annie's Austrian Cocoa Cocconut Cake

While in Greece I had a cooking lesson from our Austrian neighbors.  Here's the recipe that I managed to translate from German...

Ingredients

• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 package of vanilla sugar (in the US we can substitute with 1 teaspoon vanilla extract)
• 2 eggs
• 1 package of 2% greek yogurt - 7 oz or 200 grams
• 1/4 cup 2% milk
• 1/2 cup oil
• 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder
• 1/2 tablespoon of cinnamon
• 1 cup flour
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup of shredded coconut

Directions

1. In a bowl mix the sugar, vanilla sugar and eggs.  
2. Add the greek yogurt, milk and oil and stir well.   
3. Sift together the cocoa powder, cinnamon, flour and baking powder and then combine with the wet ingredients.  Mix on slow speed for one minute.  
4. Then stir in the dry coconut and mix on high speed for two to three minutes.  
5. Pour batter into a bread pan that is buttered and floured or lined with parchment paper.  
6. Bake at 320 degrees fahrenheit for 60 minutes
7. Let the cake cool and then enjoy!

Note this was made using an electric hand mixer.  I am told that you can substitute coconut for nuts or any other item that you might like in a cake.  This is also supposed to make a good cupcake base.