Coconut cream cake

Coconut cream cake

A tempting egg-free cake with a taste of the exotic to it

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Cuts into 10 slices

Preperation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 25 mins

Cook time

Cook 55 mins

Freezable

Egg-free

Can be frozen when uniced

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 180C/gas 4/fan oven 160C. Line an 18cm round cake tin with baking parchment. Cream together the butter and sugar until soft. Add 150ml/1⁄4pint of the coconut cream and the remaining cake ingredients and beat lightly to make a soft and slightly wet mixture.
  2. Spoon the ingredients into the tin and bake for 50-55 minutes, until the top of the cake is golden and a skewer inserted comes clean. Remove from the oven allow to cool in the cake tin.
  3. When cold, remove the cake from the tin, peel away the paper and put the cake on a plate. Put the icing sugar into a bowl and add enough of the reserved coconut cream to mix to a thick but flowing consistency. Spread the icing over the cake, allowing it to dribble down the sides, then sprinkle the toasted coconut around the top edge.

411 kcalories, protein 4g, carbohydrate 50g, fat 23 g, saturated fat 17g, fibre 2g, salt 0.58 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2002.

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  • 06 April 2008

    kate rated and commented on this recipe

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    A lovely, light cake that I will definately make again soon. My son particularly liked the flavour and he isn't easy to please!

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  • 12 June 2008

    captain dynamite rated and commented on this recipe

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    I found that this was quite dry, dont know if done something wrong cooking it but was still very nice, I did decide to swap the butter for pura, found that with my electric oven had to extend the cooking time by 10 min

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    13 August 2008

    Sam rated and commented on this recipe

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    I really liked the taste, but i used gluten free flour could this be why it was very crumbly?

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    13 August 2008

    Sam commented on this recipe

    l've just tried it again, still very crumbly and this time it sank in the middle, it tastes soo nice I want it to work properly! Anyone got any suggestions?

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Cuts into 10 slices

Preperation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 25 mins

Cook time

Cook 55 mins

Freezable

Egg-free

Can be frozen when uniced

Ingredients

FOR THE CAKE

  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 50g desiccated coconuts
  • 200ml carton coconut cream
  • 85g fine or medium polenta
  • 2 level tsb baking powder
  • 140g butter at room temperature
  • 140g golden caster sugar
  • finely grated zest of ½ lemon
  • 140g plain flour

TOPPING

  • 2 tbsp toasted desiccated coconuts
  • 140g icing sugar , sieved
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