Lime and Coconut Drizzle Cake

WEEK 1

The first bake of the new series of the Great British Bake Off was a drizzle cake. This made me very excited; a lemon drizzle cake is one of my specialities and is one that I am always baking.

BUT, this project is all about trying new things and being more adventurous with my baking so I steered away from my brilliant lemon drizzle and decided upon a recipe I found by YouTuber Cupcake Jemma. I found this recipe months ago and have been wanting to try it out for a while. There will probably be a lot of bakes on here inspired by Jemma, she makes the most amazing cakes! I followed this video and made a Lime and Coconut Drizzle Cake.

It looks pretty good, right?! But it didn't exactly go as planned...

I bought all the ingredients, but realised I'd bought golden caster sugar instead of normal caster sugar, but thankfully this didn't make too much of a difference. Still, it annoyed me to no end haha.

This recipe used so many limes. SO MANY. You need the rind of four, but only the juice of one, so you'll have three limes left over without any rind. I think I need to find a recipe that just needs the juice of three limes...

I followed the recipe and put it in the oven to bake. It said it needed to be baked at gas mark 3 for 30-35 minutes. 

LIES!

After 35 minutes the cake was still wobbly and uncooked in the middle. I put it back in the oven for a further 15 mins and when it was still not completely cooked, I whacked the heat up to gas mark 5 for another 5 minutes. When I went back to check, it was looking a bit brown on top so I took it out, a skewer came out clean so I thought it was done.

WRONG!

When I came back after letting it cool for a bit I saw THIS:

How gross does this look? Mary and Paul would not be impressed, and I reckon at this point in the Bake Off tent I would have a full blown melt down.

Thankfully I was only in my kitchen and there was no camera crew, so after a few angry words at the cake, I calmed down and decided this would become the bottom.

Ta-dahh!

Good thinking Becca.

Then came the drizzling to turn the cake into a drizzle cake. I was slightly worried when the recipe called for coconut milk to be used, but it worked out very well and the syrup had a bit of a creamy taste to it which was lovely.

After a sprinkling of toasted coconut as decoration, my first bake was complete! 

  

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1190g self-raising flour
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 35g desiccated coconut
• Zest of 3 limes
• 200g unsalted butter
• 190g caster sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1.5 tbsp lime juice
• 50g caster sugar
• 90ml coconut milk
• Zest of 1 lime
• Toasted coconut flakes

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 170°C/gas mark 3 and grease a loaf tin, lining the bottom with greaseproof paper.
• Sift the flour and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl
• Add the desiccated coconut and lime zest, then set to one side.
• Cream together the butter and sugar until light and pale.
• Add the eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition.
• Add the dry ingredients and fold in.
• Add the lime juice.
• Bake in the oven for 30-35 mins, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
• To make the syrup, place the caster sugar, coconut milk and lime zest into a saucepan. Bring to the boil, then let simmer for 4-5 minutes until it reaches a syrupy consistency. Let it cool.
• Stab the cake with a skewer and pour the syrup on top. 
• Finish with coconut flakes as decoration.

I'm rather proud of my creation, considering it did have a big ugly hole in the bottom. It tasted really good as well which was a bonus!

Now to think about the next bake!

Becca xo

Would just like to reiterate, NOT MY RECIPE! All credit to Cupcake Jemma, got check her out, she's fab.