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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal347
  • fat22g
  • saturates15g
  • carbs35g
  • sugars25g
  • fibre2g
  • protein4g
  • salt0.22g
    low
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Method

  • step 1

    Butter and line a traybake or small roasting tin, about 20 x 30cm. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Gently melt the butter in a large saucepan, cool for 5 mins, add the sugar, vanilla and eggs, then beat until smooth with a wooden spoon. Stir in the flour, coconut and ¼ tsp salt. Stir the carrot and mixed spice into the mix. Bake for 30 mins.

  • step 2

    Meanwhile, evenly mix 85g more coconut with 25g light muscovado sugar and 25g melted butter. Smooth this over the cake, then bake for 10 mins more until golden and a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool, then cut into squares.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, July 2009

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Overall rating

A star rating of 4.5 out of 5.106 ratings

ranvir_k25766

As a beginner to the world of baking, I thought I'd make this for my husbands family. It came out surprisingly well as I wasn't too sure whether the carrot and coconut would be a good pairing! They loved it to say the least, it was succulent and moist.

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Anita Godinho

I had a bit of a mishap with this cake. I started to bake and then discovered I'd run out of dessicated coconut. I replaced it with ground almonds and it worked really well.

ruby-64

Made this last week & it’s so popular with my family & the elderly gentleman next door that I’m making it again today…so delicious…I added chopped walnuts as I had a few leftover & added golden syrup to the topping. It tastes even better the next day.

rebeccaedwards18

Lovely cake! Will make again, I put honey in with the topping mixture so it wasn’t so crumbly and dry

Claire995

Lovely cake! I reduced the sugar to 200g and added sultanas and walnuts to the batter. After id read other people's comments about the topping falling off, i added golden syrup and some oats to it, making it more like a flapjack layer and this worked super well

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