Hello again,

I hope your all having a lovely weekend. As it’s the last weekend of my Easter break I’ve been having a lazy day spent dog walking and experimenting with new ideas for cakes.

I’m becoming rather a prolific baker. It seems like every Sunday afternoon for weeks has been spent baking. It’s nice to finish the weekend off with sweet treat and I also find baking takes my mind away from worrying about the week ahead. I like to share my bakes with my family. Usually on a Sunday I spend a few hours at my grandparents, last weekend I unloaded a whole load of Lemon and Poppy Seed Muffins on them.

Today I thought I would try combining Coconut and Lime in a cake as this is one of my favourite flavour combinations. It worked well so I thought I would share the recipie with you.



Lime & Coconut cake

Ingredients:

250 g Self Rasing Flour

100 g Caster Sugar

1 tsp Baking Powder

1 tsp Baking Soda

1/2 tsp Salt

1 Lime (zest and Juice)

50 g Coconut Oil

50 g Vegan Spread

250 g Alpro Coconut Yogurt

For Icing:

400 g Icing Sugar

250 g Vegan Spread

Extra Lime Juice and Zest

Desiccated Coconut

For the cake mix:

Pre heat the oven to 150 C. Grease two medium cake Tina and set aside. Measure and combine the Flour, Sugar, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Salt and Lime Zest in a mixing bowl. Melt the Coconut Oil and Vegan Spread in a Pirex bowl over a pan of heated water. Mix the melted ingredients into the dry ingredients. Add the Yogurt to complete the cake mix. If you feel the mix needs more liquid add a table spoon of water. Spoon the mix between two cake tins. Bake for 30-40 minutes check the cake from time to time towards the end of the cooking time to insure it doesn’t become over cooked.

To Ice:

For the centre of my cake I made a Lime butter cream. To do this I combined Icing Sugar and Vegan Spread with a little of the leftover Lime Zest and a teaspoonful of Lime Juice. To top the cake I simple used Water Icing to help the Desiccated Coconut stick. You can make the Icing easily by combining Icing Sugar with a small amount of water. Never ice a cake until it is completely cool, no matter how tempting it is, as the icing will melt into the sponge.

I hope you enjoy this recipe and I hope to share more soon!

Josie



