Coconut Cake with Lemon Frosting

Coconut and lemon is a summery combination! It is a lovely cake, not too sweet and the lemon frosting adds a nice freshness. Next time though, I will add more coconut and use less flour as I would prefer it to be more coconut flavoured. This cake has no WOW factor to it, but it’s very enjoyable, and subtle in it’s flavours and great for your afternoon tea or coffee. You don’t always want an explosion of flavours, sometimes you like it simple and plain.

Coconut Cake with Lemon Frosting

150 grams melted butter

2 eggs

3 dl sugar (300ml)

½ dl desiccated coconut (50ml)

4 ½ dl flour (450ml)

2 tsp baking powder

1 ½ dl milk (150ml)

1 lemon, zest and juice

Icing sugar until frosting has the desired texture

Desiccated coconut to sprinkle on top of the cake

Preheat oven at 175 degrees C.

Melt the butter. Mix egg and sugar until fluffy. Combine coconut, flour, baking powder in a separate bowl and add along with melted butter and milk to egg mixture. Pour into a greased and floured (I used desiccated coconut) baking tin, about 20 cm. Bake for about 20-30 minutes, until a stick comes out clean. Let the cake cool and meanwhile prepare the frosting.

Combine zest and juice from 1 lemon with icing sugar until your have the desired texture.  I used juice from one large lemon and therefore needed about 5 dl (500ml) of icing sugar. I ended up with a lot of frosting! But I poured it all over the cake once it had cooled down. I thought it would be nice with a lot of frosting.


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This is contributed to Foodie Friday and Sweets for Saturday.

ENJOY!