Parsnip,coconut and lime cake

Method

• step 1

  Heat the oven to 180C/fan170C/Gas Mark 4

• step 2

  Grease and line a 900g loaf tin

• step 3

  Beat the butter, sugar, flour, baking powder and eggs in a large bowl.

• step 4

  Add the parsnip and desiccated coconut and stir through. Add as much milk as is required if the mixture looks dry.

• step 5

  Spoon into the loaf tin and bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

• step 6

  Meanwhile make the lime drizzle. Mix the lime juice, zest and sugar until it forms a thin syrup. Dip a teaspoon in to taste the syrup and add more sugar if desired.

• step 7

  When the cake is ready, leave it to cool in the tin for at least 30 minutes.

• step 8

  Turn the cake onto a wire rack placed over a dinner plate and make around 20 holes in the top of the cake with a skewer. Make the 5 holes in the middle quite deep (around half the height of the cake).

• step 9

  Drizzle over the lime syrup and leave for 2 hours to cool completely or overnight.