Coconut Bread

This simple and delicious coconut bread is the ideal morning tea treat, moist and sweet you’d be crazy not to pair it with a hot cuppa. It has a gorgeous coconut aroma that will fill your home and leave your neighbors contemplating why they aren’t more neighborly.

(Makes 1 loaf)
See the bottom of the recipe for gf and other delicious variations of this recipe.

Ingredients:

1 C plain flour
1 + ½ tsp baking powder
½ C white sugar (caster if you have it)
½ C brown sugar
1 C desiccated coconut
1 C coconut cream
1 tsp vanilla essence

Preheat your oven to 180C (Fan bake).
Grease and line a loaf tin.
Sieve the flour and baking powder together into a large bowl.
Sieve the two sugars together into the bowl and mix with the other dry ingredients. If you find the brown sugar is being a pest and won’t sieve – using a spoon to push it around the sieve may help, but as long as the big lumps are out dump it in the bowl and move on.
Add the coconut cream, desiccated coconut and vanilla essence to the dry ingredients and mix until everything is just combined.
Pour into a lined/greased loaf tin and bake for 45 minutes (or until a skewer comes out clean).
Your baked coconut bread should be golden brown and beautiful.
Leave it to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before removing.

Variation Ideas:

Lemon Coconut Bread:
Add zest of a medium lemon, and a good two squeezes of the juice to the mixture.

Lime Coconut Bread:
Add zest and juice of a small lime to the mixture.

Gluten Free Coconut Bread:
Replace the flour with 1 cup of gluten free self raising flour, and follow all other steps as per usual.