Coconut cake

Coconut cake

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Cooking time

Prep: 15 mins Cook: 1 hr, 10 mins Plus cooling

Skill level

Moderately easy

Servings

Serves 10

A tasty party dessert with a juicy raspberry lime drizzle

Nutrition and extra info

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  • Freezable
Nutrition info

Nutrition per serving

kcalories
731
protein
11g
carbs
96g
fat
37g
saturates
25g
fibre
4g
sugar
67g
salt
0.35g
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Ingredients

  • 200g block creamed coconut, chopped
  • 3 tbsp rapeseed or groundnut oil
  • 200g tub full-fat soft cheese
  • 600g sugar
  • 5 large eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 375g plain flour
  • 175g desiccated coconut
  • icing sugar, raspberry lime drizzle (see below), coconut curls and lime zest (both optional) to serve

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  • Tip

    Raspberry lime drizzle

    Purée 250g raspberries with 3 tbsp brown sugar. Rub through a sieve. Mix with 250g raspberries. Stir in zest ½ lime.

Method

  1. In a small pan, heat the creamed coconut gently until it melts. Mix in oil, then pour into a large bowl. Leave to cool.
  2. Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Line a deep 20 x 30cm baking tin with baking parchment. Add cheese and sugar to the cooled cream, then beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each, then the vanilla extract and a pinch of salt. The mix will become mousse-like. Fold in flour, then coconut.
  3. Scrape into the tin. Bake for 1 hr-1 hr 5 mins until golden brown and a skewer stuck in the centre comes out clean. Turn out and cool on a rack. Serve, dusted with icing sugar and cut in wedges. Pour on the drizzle, add coconut curls and zest, if using.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2009

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cassandralane05:30, 6th Sep, 2010
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I halved the ingredients and put the mix in a square tin. It's not very cake-like at all... more of a coconut brownie. However, it tasted very good!

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cassandralane05:30, 6th Sep, 2010
1

I halved the ingredients and put the mix in a square tin. It's not very cake-like at all... more of a coconut brownie. However, it tasted very good!

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cazandjay11:31, 19th Jul, 2009

I think this cake looks like a pizza!!!! will not be trying this one after all the negative comments !!

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fionamort240811:39, 13th Jul, 2009
1

This recipe did not work at all well - much too sweet and heavy as a brick! Self raising flour instead of plain? An expensive waste of ingredients

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janerackham04:00, 30th May, 2009
1

i too was disappointed with this cake. The flavour was good but it was dry and i cooked it exactly as the recipe. It is very large and serves more than 10 portions. In the picture it looks as though it has been cooked in a round tin but the recipe states a rectangular tin which doesn't make for a dinner party pudding, rather more a traybake.

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abs14003:59, 26th May, 2009
1

I followed this recipe EXACTLY, and it was like a BRICK! SO solid and not very sweet, considering the 600g of sugar in it! Wasn't sure it was supposed to be plain flour... Wouldnt recommend it at all.

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