Mama's Orange (or Lime) & Coconut Cake

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 8 ounces self raising flour
• 8 ounces margarine or 8 ounces butter
• 6 ounces sugar
• 2 ounces desiccated coconut (unsweetened)
• 3 medium eggs
• 3 oranges, zest of (or limes)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• approx. 200ml water
• 3/4 cup icing sugar
• orange juice (or lime juice)
• 1 teaspoon margarine (or butter)
• orange & lemon candy (jelly slices)
• silver dragees

Recipe

• 1 cream the margarine and the sugar until light and fluffy. whisk the eggs into the sugar/margarine mixture.
• 2 slowly add the flour (sieved), baking powder, orange zest and coconut. stir in a figure of 8 fashion.
• 3 gradually add enough water to loosen the cake mix up a bit. it should be the consistency of a slightly thin custard.
• 4 pour into a non stick cake tin, preferably with loose bottom. i use an 8'' round tin for this cake.
• 5 bake on a middle/top shelf in the oven at 180 c for around 45 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.
• 6 remove from tin and cool on wire rack. once cooled, top with the icing or dust with icing sugar.
• 7 to make the icing, beat the margarine with the sugar & enough of the juice to form a spreadable icing. cover the top of the cake & decorate with the jelly slices & dragees / silver balls.