Coconut Bread

Name: Coconut Bread
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 larges eggs; 473 milliliters self-rising flour (not cake flour); 118 milliliters sugar; 283 grams cups sweetened flaked coconut; 118 milliliters stick unsalted butter, softened

One portion of this dish contains roughly 6g of protein, 23g of fat, and a total of 440 calories. This recipe serves 8. If 52 cents per serving falls in your budget, Coconut Bread might be a super vegetarian recipe to try. A mixture of eggs, coconut, sugar, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour a 9- by 5- by 3-inch loaf pan, knocking out excess flour.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Loaf Pan

Oven

Spread 3 cups coconut in a large shallow baking pan (1 inch deep) and toast in middle of oven, stirring occasionally, until evenly golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. (Watch flakes carefully; edges burn quickly.) Cool completely in pan on a rack, about 15 minutes, then grind in a food processor to a coarse meal, about 40 seconds (you will have about 1 1/4 cups). Leave oven on.

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Coconut

Spread

Toast

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Food Processor

Baking Pan

Oven

Stir together self-rising flour, ground coconut, and remaining cup (untoasted) coconut in a large bowl. Beat together butter and sugar in another bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until pale and creamy, 1 to 2 minutes.

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Self Rising Flour

Coconut

Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

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Egg

Whisk 1 cup water into flour mixture, then add egg mixture, whisking just until well blended.

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All Purpose Flour

Water

Egg

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Whisk

Pour batter into loaf pan, smoothing top with a spatula, and bake in middle of oven until a wooden skewer inserted in center comes out clean and top is evenly brown, 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cool bread to warm in pan on a rack, 10 to 15 minutes, then turn out of pan and set right side up on rack to cool completely, about 2 hours more.

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Bread