Sunday, January 8, 2012

Lemon Coconut Cake
based on recipe on www.bestrecipes.com.au

Ingredients
1½ cups flour
1½ teaspoons baking powder
½ cup desiccated coconut
1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
1 cup sugar
125g butter, melted
2 eggs
1 cup milk/soy milk/coconut milk or mixture there-of
Icing
½ cup desiccated coconut
1 cup icing sugar
1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
1-2 tablespoons lemon juice

Method
Preheat the oven to 1800C. Oil a baking pan.
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl, mixing well with a spoon until the batter is smooth.
Pour the mixture into the baking pan and bake for approximately 40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the thickest part of the cake, comes out clean.
Cool completely before icing.
Icing
Mix together in a bowl the desiccated coconut, icing sugar and lemon rind. Add enough lemon juice to attain a thick but spreadable icing. Spread over the cooled cake.