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Strawberry and Coconut Cake - Easy Recipe


Strawberry and Coconut Cake - Easy Recipe

A super easy recipe for a delicious, light and flavourful cake.


Strawberry and Coconut Cake - Easy Recipe

You will need:


Strawberry and Coconut Cake - Easy Recipe

Strawberry and Coconut Cake


  • 300 g strawberries

  • 2 eggs

  • 1 cup/200g white caster sugar

  • 1 1/2 cups/ 180g white flour

  • 120 ml vegetable/sunflower oil

  • 80g butter/dairy-free spread

  • 1 tsp vanilla extract/flavouring

  • 60 g desiccated coconut

  • 10g baking powder

  • 10g cocoa powder


Strawberry and Coconut Cake - Easy Recipe

How to:


  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/ gas 4

  2. Line the bottom of a 9inch cake tin with baking paper and use a teaspoon of butter/dairy-free spread to butter the edges

  3. Slice 7-8 large strawberries (100 g) into thin slices and cut the remaining ones into small cubes

  4. In a large bowl mix the butter and sugar

  5. Add the eggs, vanilla extract, and desiccated coconut

  6. Add the flour and baking powder and mix well

  7. Add the chopped strawberries and mix gently

  8. Pour most of the batter into the cake tin, apart from 2/3 tablespoons of the mix

  9. Mix the leftover batter with the cocoa powder and two tablespoons of water

  10. Slowly pour the batter with cocoa on top of the other one, either trying to create a swirl, starting from the centre, or zig-zags

  11. Arrange the strawberry slices on top of the batter

  12. Bake for 45 minutes at 170 C fan assisted/ 190 C/ gas 5/ 375°F (or until a toothpick/wooden skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean)

  13. Leave the cake to cool down in the tin for 5-10 minutes

  14. Transfer the cake to a cooling rack and leave it to cool down completely

  15. Slice, serve and enjoy!


Strawberry and Coconut Cake - Easy Recipe

  • You can sprinkle some icing sugar on top before serving, but it's super delicious with or without it.

  • If you prefer this cake without cocoa powder, you can just omit that step and pour all the batter into the cake tin

  • You can enjoy it as it is, serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or whipped cream


Strawberry and Coconut Cake - Easy Recipe

  • Kept in an air-tight container at room temperature or in the fridge, this beautiful cake will last for 2-3 days.

  • This cake can be made dairy-free as well as gluten-free by using dairy-free butter/spread and gluten-free flour and the resulting cake will be just as fluffy and delicious


Strawberry and Coconut Cake - Easy Recipe

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