RASPBERRY AND COCONUT CAKE
Ingredients
- 350g/12oz self-raising flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 350g/12oz unsalted butter
- softened
- 350g/12oz caster sugar
- 6 free-range eggs
- 200g/7oz desiccated coconut
- 2 limes
- juice and zest only
- 350g/12oz raspberries
- plus extra for decoration
- 150g/5oz raspberry jam
- thinned with a little hot water
- 200g/7oz desiccated coconut
- toasted
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/360F/Gas 4.
- Grease and line a 30cm/12in flat shallow cake tin with baking parchment.
- For the cake
- beat the flour
- baking powder
- butter
- sugar
- eggs
- coconut and lime juice together in a bowl (or use an electric mixer).
- Carefully fold in the raspberries.
- Pour the cake batter into the cake tin
- then bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until risen and golden-brown. Test the cake with a metal skewer - if the skewer comes out clean
- the cake is cooked through.
- Remove the cake from the oven and immediately spread the jam over the top.
- Allow the cake to cool then and sprinkle with the desiccated coconut and place the extra raspberries on top.
- To serve
- cut the cake into squares.

