Recipe 11: Coconut & Lime Cake

Ingredients:

Butter 175g 
caster sugar 175g 
Beaten eggs 3 
Self-Raising Flour 150g 
Desiccated coconut 80g 
Grated rind and juice of a lime 1 

Icing: 

Icing Sugar 175g 
Grated rind and juice of a lime 1 
toasted shredded coconut 25g

Method:
1: Grease an 8inch cake tin. Preheat oven to 260c/Gas Mark 3
2: Place the butter & sugar in a large bowl & beat together until pale and smooth. Gradually beat in eggs. Sift in flour and gently fold in. Fold in the coconut and lime rind & juice.
3: Spoon the mixture into tin and level the surface off. Cook for 1 hour 15mins. Leave to cool for 5mins in the tin and then remove to cool on a rack.
4: For the icing, sift icing sugar in a bowl stir in lime rind and juice. Spoon icing on top and allow to drizzle down the edges. Scatter extra coconut on the icing.