Bring a taste of the tropics to your kitchen with my new Coconut, Mango & Lime Cake recipe! 🥥đźĄđźŤ‹ This delicious gluten-free cake is wonderfully light, fruity, and full of fresh flavours, making it perfect for summer gatherings, afternoon tea, or whenever you’re craving something a little different.
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Ingredients
- Unsalted butter x 150g
- Coconut sugar x 150g
- Eggs x 3 large
- Almond flour x 180g
- Coconut flour x 45g
- Tapioca starch x 45g
- Baking powder x 1 tsp
- Bicarbonate of soda x 1/2 tsp
- Limes x 2 zest and juice
- Frozen mango x 100 – 200g thawed well drained and chopped into small pieces
Method
- Remove the butter from the fridge and leave to soften.
- When the butter is soft cream it with the sugar until it’s fluffy.
- Next remove the yolks from the egg whites.
- Place the yolks into the creamed butter and sugar.
- Beat the eggs into the mixture.
- Mixture the almond flour, coconut flour, tapioca starch, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda together.
- Fold the dry ingredients into the butter mixture.
- Stir in the lime zest and juice.
- Set these ingredient aside.
- Whisk the egg whites until they are fluffy and form stiff peaks.
- You will be able to turn the bowl upside down and the egg whites won’t fall out.
- Now fold the egg whites into the cake batter.
- Set the cake batter aside.
- Grease the baking tray or cake tin.
- Scrunch a piece of grease proof paper between your hand and spread it across the base of the tray or tin.
- Next grease the top of the paper.
- Drain any juice from the mangoes and spread this across the base of the tin as evenly as possible.
- Spread the cake mixture across the top of the mango being careful not to move it all to one side of the tin.
- Put the cake in the fridge for 20 – 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 170°C or gas mark 4.
- After 30 minutes remove the cake from the fridge and place it into the oven.
- Bake for 40 – 50 minutes.
- Once the cake is golden brown on top and you can put a skewer in and it comes out clean remove the cake form the oven.
- Leave to cool completely
- Slice and serve with ice cream or cream or just on it’s own.
- Then enjoy.
I hope you enjoy baking it as much as I enjoyed creating it! If you make it, I’d love to hear how it turned out. Happy baking! đź’›
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