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Coconut and Lemon Cake Recipe
Ingredients 1 and ½ cups of flour ½ cup of grated coconut 1 tablespoon of grated lemon peels 1 cup of extra fine sugar 125 grams of melted butter 2 eggs 1 cups of milk
Coconut covering 1 and ½ cups of sifted confectioner’s sugar 1 cup of grated coconut ½ teaspoon of grated lemon peels ¼ cup of limejuice
- Preparation time: 20 minutes
- Baking time: 40 minutes
Preparation
- Preheat the oven at a moderate temperature of 180 degrees C. Grease a round baking pan of 20 centimeters in diameter with melted butter or oil. Cover the base and the sides of the baking pan with wax paper.
- Mix the flour, coconut, the grated lime peels, the sugar, the butter, the eggs and the milk in a large bowl. Stir all of the ingredients well with a wooden spoon until you obtain a homogenous mixture.
- Put the mixture in the baking dish and bake the cake for 40 minutes or until a wooden pick poked into it comes out clean. Let it sit for 3 minutes. Then flip it over onto a metal rack so that it cools. Once cooled, put coconut icing over the surface of the cake.
- To make the coconut icing: Mix the confectioner’s sugar and the coconut in a bowl. Add in the grated lemon peels and a lot of limejuice so that the mixture acquires consistency but smooth. The presentation of this cake will looks very nice when decorated with slices of sugar coated lemon.
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