Posh budget recipe for 10 people, takes only 10 mins; recipe has creamed coconut, groundnut oil, soft cheese, sugar, egg, vanilla extract, plain flour, desiccated coconut and lime.
Coconut cake
Course: Posh budget
Servings
10
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Egg: 5 large eggs
- Sugar: 600g sugar
- Lime: icing sugar, raspberry lime drizzle (see below), coconut curls and lime zest (both optional) to serve
- Plain Flour: 375g plain flour
- Soft Cheese: 200g tub full-fat soft cheese
- Vanilla Extract: 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Groundnut Oil: 3 tbsp rapeseed or groundnut oil
- Desiccated Coconut: 175g desiccated coconut
- Creamed Coconut: 200g block creamed coconut, chopped
Directions
- In a small pan, heat the creamed coconut gently until it melts. Mix in oil, then pour into a large bowl. Leave to cool.
- 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.
- 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.
