Coconut Cake

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

  • About

I may have an exaggerated sense of camp or kitsch, but a highlight of this recipe from my point of view is that it uses Malibu. Actually, Malibu is quite useful for baking, since it’s hard to come by coconut extract or essence worthy of the name.

But this is also a beautiful cake, pale gold and white and delicately flavoured.

Ingredients

For the cake

  • 225 g unsalted butter, softened
  • 225 g caster sugar
  • ½

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4 and make the cake by putting all the ingredients in the food processor and blitzing till you have a soft batter. If you want to make it by hand, then proceed as for the Victoria sponge, adding the coconut at t