I Made a Cake.

This is basically the only thing that I have cooked in recent years that is not chocolate. So yeah... it's pretty damn good.


Lime and Coconut Cake (adapted from Flick Your Food)


Ingredients

Cake

• 250g Butter 
• 3 Cups Plain Flour 
• 2 Tsp Baking Powder 
• 1 3/4 Cup Caster Sugar 
• 4 Eggs 
• Juice of 3 Limes 
• Rind of 1 Lime 
• 1/4 Cup Coconut Cream 
• 1/2 Cup Desiccated Coconut

Icing

• 100g Cream Cheese 
• 200g Butter 
• 1/2 Cup Icing Sugar 
• 2 Tbs Coconut Cream 

Shredded coconut and lime rind to decorate


Method

1. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees
2. Beat together the butter and sugar until the sugar dissolves
3. Add the eggs then lime, coconut, coconut cream and rind and beat to combine
4. Add the flour, a cup at a time
5. Pour the mixture into your cake tin and cook for 40-50mins
6. For the icing, beat all ingredients together until light and fluffy. This may take a while.
7. Once cooled, spread the icing over the cake and sprinkle over shredded coconut. Grate some lime zest over the cake for some colour.
8. Spoon over passionfruit pulp for serving


Enjoy xx