Description
This is one of my favorite recipes, handed down to me from my boss’s recipe box. It is great as a breakfast muffin, snack, or with a meal. Everyone will love this. Feel free to make it your own. Add nuts, raisins, coconut milk, or make it just how it is.
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon butter, softened
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup low-fat milk
- ¼ cup water
- ¼ cup canola oil
- 1 ¼ teaspoons coconut extract (Optional)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan with butter.
- Combine flour
- sugar
- coconut
- baking powder
- and salt in a large bowl; stir once or twice with a wooden spoon. Add eggs
- milk
- water
- oil
- coconut extract
- vanilla
- and cinnamon; mix until well blended. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
- about 1 hour. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Servings: 8