Lime Drizzle Cake with Coconut – Easy home-baking recipe
Lime Drizzle Cake. Like Lemon Drizzle Cake but with with an added tropical coconut twist. This is a very easy cake to make. It uses a basic sponge recipe which is taken to the next level by the lime and coconut flavour combination. As with all Drizzle Cakes, the icing is a simple combination of zesty fruit juice and icing sugar, so no need for fancy icing techniques. You just mix it together and pour it onto the warm cake so it adds an additional sweet and zingy punch of flavour.
Lovely limes…
I love limes. They have all the sharp citrus notes of lemons but with a more complex spicy background flavour which combines brilliantly with the richness of coconut. As well as cakes, I often use it with seafood, such as my Crab and Prawn Tart with Chilli, Lime and Coriander. It is also adds a fantastic zip of sharpness to sweet tropical fruits, such as mango, as in Mango and Lime Ice Cream.
…and creamy coconut
I use a combination of Coconut Cream and Desiccated Coconut to flavour this cake. Coconut Cream is one of my favourite ingredients for both sweet and savoury recipes. It comes in a block from which you can break off as much as you need. Once opened, you can keep it in the fridge for several weeks and use whenever you want to add a coconut hit to one of your recipes. It has a rich, creamy flavour which is great in cakes and puddings but also in Thai-style curries. If you don’t have a tin of coconut milk handy, you can just add some coconut cream to water and use that instead.
I have recently been won over to Desiccated Coconut having been put off by childhood memories of it as a dry, flavourless coating on rather unappetising shop-bought cakes. However, if you soak it in water before using, it becomes soft and flavourful and is a great addition to recipes. I guess the clue is in the name – it has had its moisture removed so you need to add it back again!
If you are inspired to explore the wonderful world of Drizzle Cakes by this recipe, you might like our recipes for Lemon Drizzle Cake and Blood Orange Drizzle Cake.
PrintLime Drizzle Cake with Coconut
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 45
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 1 loaf cake 1x
- Category: Cake
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: English
Description
This Lime Drizzle Cake with Coconut is really easy and quick to make and provides a tropical twist on a traditional Lemon Drizzle Cake.
Ingredients
- 25 g coconut cream (grated)
- 50 g desiccated coconut
- 250 ml boiling water
- 125 g butter
- 175 g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 175 g self-raising flour
- 2 limes
- 100 g icing sugar
- A little desiccated coconut or grated coconut cream to decorate.
Instructions
- Set your oven to 180 degrees centigrade or Gas Mark 4.
- Grease a 450 g loaf tin and line the bottom with baking parchment.
- In a small bowl, combine the grated coconut cream, desiccated coconut and boiling water. Leave to cool slightly while you get on with the rest of the cake preparations. The coconut cream will melt and the desiccated coconut will soften and expand in the hot water.
- Cream the butter with the sugar in a large bowl. (I usually soften the butter for about 30 seconds in the microwave first as it makes it much easier!)
- Gradually add the eggs to the butter and sugar mixture. If it looks as if it is going to curdle, add some of the self-raising flour.
- Once the eggs have been incorporated add the rest of the self-raising flour.
- Add the contents of the small bowl – water, melted coconut cream and desiccated coconut – to the cake mixture together with the grated zest of your limes.
- Spoon the cake mixture into your prepared loaf tin.
- Put the tin in the oven and bake for 45 minutes.
- While the cake is baking, combine the juice from your limes with 100 g of icing sugar to form a thick syrup.
- Remove the cake from the oven and immediately pour the syrup over the top.
- Leave the cake in the tin to cool completely before removing. If you try and take it out while it is still warm it may fall apart as it will be very moist due to the syrup.
- You can decorate the top of the cake with a little desiccated coconut or grated coconut cream.
mmmmm I am loving the use of coconut and lime in a drizzle cake! how delicious. I love how moist a drizzle cake is and it is per ct served alongside a cup of tea. thank you for sharing with #Bakeoftheweek
I love the flavours you’ve used for this cake, lime and coconut. It does look amazing too.
I’ve made a similar cake before and it’s so good, so I can imagine how yummy this is!