Pat's Coconut & Lemon Syrup Cake

SERVES: MAKES 1 20CM ROUND CAKE - 8 SERVES
PREPARATION: 35 MINUTES
COOK: 45 MINUTES + 10 FOR SYRUP

Ingredients
cake
4 eggs
125g butter
grated zest of 1 lime 
grated zest of 1 lemon
1 cup (250g) caster sugar
2 cups (180g) desiccated coconut
1 cup (150g) self raising flour




lemon syrup
1/2 cup (125ml) water
3/4 cup (190g) sugar
Juice 2 lemons
rind of 1 lemon - cut into strips 


Method
Preheat oven to 180C. Butter and flour a 20cm spring form tin.


Cream the butter, caster sugar, lime and lemon zest together until light and fluffy.


Gradually add the eggs one at a time and beat until they are fully incorporated.


Fold in the coconut and the sifted flour. 


Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes away clean.


Meanwhile prepare the syrup. Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan and stir with a wooden spoon until the sugar dissolves. 


Bring to the boil and simmer for about 5 minutes. 


When the cake is cooked, pour over the hot syrup and leave it to cool in the tin before turning it out. Serve with double cream. 

My Notes



I didn't notice that the recipe said spring form tin until it was too late....and used a normal tin. I also didn't butter and flour the tin, I greased and lined it like a good girl :).


The batter was really thick! I didn't think it was going to come together there for a minute, but it did. 


I think the cake needed another 5 - 8 minutes in the oven it did sink in the middle! (hate that) so I turned it upside down for presentation. 


As for the syrup I cooked mine for longer, about 15 minutes and reduced it quite a bit.
I also used the juice from 1 lemon & 1 lime instead of the 2 lemons. 


I also poked holes all over the cake with a skewer and then poured the syrup over. 


I looked through my books to make a cake with ingredients that I had handy, and came up with this one from a book called cafe cafe - A cookbook for the easy life by Kirsten McKay.
This book was given to me by my daughter's school friend Heidi for Christmas in 1998! and I had NEVER made anything from it....but I have now and will continue too :) 

Cafe Cafe A Cookbook for the Easy Life
click here to buy it at Amazon


This recipe is credited in the book to a cake cook named Pat Birley. 


The cake it self is really gorgeous, tart and sweet, just adore it!