Easy lemon coconut almond cake

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Many radical person tried this present and nary 1 thinks of it arsenic a gluten escaped cake. It’s conscionable a delicious cake! Love the coconut + citrus + almond repast combination, and the springy, moist crumb. BONUS: Just astir the fastest, easiest barroom look I know.

Lemon coconut almond cake

This is simply a barroom that is arsenic delightfully casual to marque arsenic it is delicious to eat. Just enactment everything successful a vessel and mix! There’s nary request to whip softened food oregon propulsion retired your electrical beater.

It’s been likened to the instrumentality favourite orange cake successful texture – springy yet with an appealing moistness astir it. And the flavour! Adore, adore, adore the coconut citrus combination. Idea swiped from my section java store wherever I’ve been eyeing citrus coconut barroom bars for years. This is my copycat.

I don’t really cognize if theirs is gluten-free. Mine is, due to the fact that I’ve ne'er travel crossed a flour-based barroom look with a crumb arsenic moist arsenic you tin marque utilizing almond meal.

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Pouring batter into cookware - Lemon coconut almond cake

Lemon coconut almond barroom acceptable to beryllium baked

What you request for this citrus coconut almond cake

Here’s what you request to marque this beauteous cake:

Ingredients successful Lemon coconut almond cake

Almond repast (aka crushed almonds) – This is earthy almonds that are blitzed into a good powder. Easily recovered nowadays, sold successful the dried effect & seed conception and wellness nutrient conception of market stores. Or marque your ain by blitzing raw, unpeeled, unsalted almonds in a almighty blender (I usage a Vitamix) until it becomes a good powder.
Almond flour can besides beryllium utilized (not arsenic communal present successful Australia). It’s finer truthful gives the barroom a somewhat fluffier texture and little almond flavour. Hazelnut repast can besides beryllium substituted though you’ll person beauteous hazelnut flavour alternatively of almond.
Butter – The abdominous successful this recipe, gives it a beauteous buttery flavour.
Baking powder – This is what makes the barroom rise.
Eggs – Make definite they are astatine country somesthesia truthful they incorporated much easy into the batter.
Coconut – Desiccated coconut which is finely shredded, unsweetened coconut. Standard shredded coconut (which is similar good strands) volition enactment but you’ll get much coconut texture successful the cake. I don’t deliberation coconut flakes (shavings) volition enactment successful this cake, it’s not absorbent enough.
Sugar – Use caster / superfine sweetener if you tin due to the fact that it is finer truthful it volition dissolve easier. Otherwise, regular / granulated sweetener tin beryllium used.
Vanilla extract – For flavour. Not to beryllium confused with artificial vanilla essence which is…well, artificial. So not arsenic nice!
Lemon – We are lone utilizing the zest successful this cake, for beauteous citrus flavour. Because the zest is wherever each the citrus flavour is – the foodstuff is mostly conscionable sour.
Flaked almonds – for sprinkling connected the surface. Adds beauteous texture to the cake, looks bully and protects the aboveground from browning excessively much. But you tin skip it you don’t person it!
Salt – Standard inclusion successful astir of my sweet recipes these days. Just a touch, to bring retired the flavours successful this cake. Doesn’t marque it salty!

How to marque citrus coconut cake

Put everything successful a vessel and MIX! How bully would beingness beryllium if each baking recipes were this easy??? (Though, my waistline begs to differ).

Melt the food successful a vessel utilizing your microwave.
Wet ingredients – Whisk successful each the different bedewed ingredients (eggs, vanilla, sweetener – yes, sweetener is considered a bedewed constituent successful baking due to the fact that it liquifies erstwhile mixed with different bedewed ingredients).
Dry ingredients – Whisk successful the almond meal, coconut, baking powder, brackish and zest.
Pour it into a 20cm/8″ lined circular barroom pan. DO NOT skip lining the pan! Even greasing precise generously is not capable to halt it from sticking to the pan, nary substance however non-stick you deliberation your cookware is. (As you mightiness person guessed, I’m speaking from archetypal manus acquisition here).
Bake 40 minutes – Sprinkle the aboveground with almonds past cook for 40 minutes astatine 180°C/350°F (160°C fan) oregon until a skewer inserted into the mediate comes retired clean.
Cool for 1 hr earlier cutting to serve. I was a spot impatient successful aboriginal versions and recovered that due to the fact that the barroom is rather moist, it tin look undercooked if you chopped it portion inactive warm. (But it’s not undercooked, it conscionable looks that mode if you chopped portion inactive hot!).

Lemon coconut almond barroom caller retired of the oven

Close up of a portion of Lemon coconut almond cake

Close up photograph of eating Lemon coconut almond cake

Serve it plain!

While immoderate cakes I urge serving with a dollop of cream, crystal pick oregon different specified accompaniment, this is simply a barroom that decidedly stands connected its ain 2 feet. Great flavour (lemon + coconut with a hint of almond) with a precise moist crumb which is virtually intolerable to replicate with flour-based cakes.

So it’s a large barroom for taking places – specified arsenic for a enactment greeting tea, publication club, schoolhouse cook sale. Just chopped and serve. And those who are gluten-intolerant tin bask it too. Though honestly, don’t conscionable marque this due to the fact that you request a gluten-free cake. Make it due to the fact that it’s conscionable a truly large barroom that happens to beryllium conscionable astir 1 of the easiest, quickest barroom recipes I know. – Nagi x

Watch however to marque it

Easy Lemon Coconut Almond Cake

Recipe video above. Many radical person tried this present and nary 1 thinks of it arsenic a gluten escaped cake. It's conscionable a delicious cake! Coconut and citrus is simply a beauteous flavour operation with the subtle flavour of almond meal. Lovely springy, moist crumb similar the fan-favourite orange cake. Bonus: Just astir the fastest, easiest barroom look I know!

1 1/2 tsp of citrus zest mightn't dependable similar overmuch but the citrus flavour comes done conscionable the close amount, successful my opinion.

Course Cake, Sweet Baking

Cuisine Western

Keyword almond repast cake, coconut cake, casual barroom recipe, Gluten Free Cake

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes

Cooling 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 50 minutes

Servings – 12

Calories 208cal

Author Nagi

Ingredients

150g / 10 tbsp unsalted butter
4 large eggs (55-60g/2oz each), astatine country temp
1 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup caster sugar (superfine sugar, Note 2)
1 1/2 cups almond repast (ground almond, Note 1)
1/4 tsp cooking/kosher salt
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup desiccated coconut (US: finely shredded unsweetened coconut)
1 1/2 tsp lemon zest (1 ample lemon)
1/4 cup flaked almonds , optional (Note 3)

Cups – Metric

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F (160°C fan). Grease a 20cm/8” circular barroom cookware (or springform pan) with food past enactment with paper.
Melt butter – Place the food successful a ample microwavable vessel and melt successful the microwave. Let chill for a mates of minutes.
Wet ingredients – Add egg, vanilla and sweetener and whisk until combined.
Dry ingredients – Add almond meal, salt, baking powder, coconut and citrus zest. Whisk until combined.
Bake 40 minutes – Pour into pan. Sprinkle implicit almonds. Bake 40 minutes. Cool 15 minutes successful cookware past cautiously crook retired onto cooling rack.
Cool astatine slightest 1 hr earlier cutting slices to serve. Moist capable to service plain – doesn't request pick oregon anything!

Notes

1. Almond meal is crushed almonds, communal constituent utilized to marque gluten escaped baked goods with the bonus that it keeps the crumb moist + has beauteous flavour. Almond flour is finer and usually made with peeled almonds but works arsenic a nonstop substitute for almond meal. Hazelnut meal tin besides beryllium used.

2. Sugar – Sub ordinary/granulated achromatic sugar, caster/superfine sweetener is conscionable safer due to the fact that it’s finer = dissolves easier. Note: This barroom is not overly sweet, 3/4 cupful of sweetener successful a full barroom is not that much!

3. Almond flakes connected the aboveground is optional. I primitively added it to support the aboveground a spot – without, it is heavy golden. But I besides similar the other texture and however it looks.

4. Keeps perfectly for 5 days – champion successful the fridge if it’s hot.

Nutrition per portion assuming 12 slices.