Coconut Loaf
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
1 loaf
ingredients
- 2 teaspoons dried yeast
- 1 tablespoon caster sugar
- 1⁄2 cup milk, warmed
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1⁄2 teaspoon coconut essence
- 2 3⁄4 cups plain flour
- 1 1⁄4 cups desiccated coconut
- 1⁄2 cup caster sugar, extra
- 1⁄2 cup soft butter
directions
- Grease a 5x8 inch loaf pan.
- Combine the warm milk and sugar in a bowl, stir in the yeast and allow to prove in a warm place for approximately 15 minutes, the yeast shouls have gone all bubbly.
- Add the eggs and ethe coconut essence.
- Mix the flour, desicated coconut and the rest of the sugar in large bowl.
- Stir in yeast mixture until you have a firm dough.
- Turn out onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes.
- Place back into a bowl, cover and allow to rise in a warm place for about 1 hour or until dough is doubled in size.
- Punch down the dough and knead until smooth. Bit by bit knead in small pieces of the soft butter.
- Place dough into the greased loaf pan, cover and stand in warm place about 40 minutes or until doubled in size.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 200°C/400°F/Gas6 for 20 minutes.
- Reduce heat to 180°C/350°F/Gas4 and bake for a further 40 minutes.
- You might need to cover the loaf with foil if it begins to get to brown.
- Remove from oven and allow to stand for 5 minutes, then turn onto a wire rack to cool. If you want you can dust it with icing sugar just before serving.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
-Sylvie-
Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Hi, I'm 31 and cooking and living in England. I was born in Germany and that's where I grew up and lived until I came to the UK to go to University in 1998.
I never went back to live in Germany, even though all my family is still there.