Lemon coconut cake

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 12
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 332.2
  • Total Fat: 16.2 g
  • Cholesterol: 89.2 mg
  • Sodium: 134.3 mg
  • Total Carbs: 45.8 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 1.6 g
  • Protein: 3.6 g

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Introduction

yummy moist lemmon and coconut cake. yummy moist lemmon and coconut cake.
Number of Servings: 12

Ingredients

    150g soft butter
    1C sugar
    4eggs
    1C flour
    1t Baking powder
    2C desicated coconut (shreded)
    zest 1 or 2 lemons

    Syrup:
    1/2C lemon juice
    3/4 C water
    1 C sugar
    Zest 1-2 lemons

Directions

cream butter and 1C sugar
Beat in eggs
Sift in flour and BP then add coconut and zest of 2 lemons
Pour into cake tin and bake 45 mins at 160 or till firm

make syrup while cake is cooking by heating 1C sugar with lemon juice and zest till sugar is desolved (about 5 min)

cool for a few minutes before removing from tim and put on serving plate

Slowely pour syrup over cake. This make look crazy as there is so much liquid but trust me, it makes a moist, delicious cake that will go down a treat! If you find the syrup all pooling around the edges then gently work around the cake lifting the edges slightly with a knife to let the syrup go under it.

Cut into 12 pieces and enjoy!


Number of Servings: 12

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MAYACARRYER.