Gluten Free Coconut Cake

Name: Gluten Free Coconut Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 12 slices
Ingredients: Cake; 300g gluten free self raising flour; 125g desiccated coconut (100g for cake, 25g for topping); 150g sunflower spread; 300g caster sugar; 4 eggs; 150ml light coconut milk; 1 and half tsp baking powder; buttercream; 75g sunflower spread; 120g icing sugar

Deliciously moreish gluten and dairy free coconut cake, super easy to make too and fabulously coconutty

Recipe by Alison Wheatley
Added26th September 2014
Prep Time15 Mins
Makes12 slices

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Coconut cake has always been a favourite in my house and something I have made since I was a kid, it's always the one I remember making in the school holidays. This gluten free cake is really soft, packed with coconutty flavour and has been adapted from my childhood recipe, I have topped with buttercream and toasted coconut but it doesn't need a topping but if you wish too, it can be left to be a more rustic sponge.

This recipe is

Vegetarian

Contains

Method

Put all ingredients (withholding 25g of the desiccated coconut to use on top later) in a bowl and mix well with an electric whisk for a few minutes until all ingredients are well combined and the mix is creamy.
Grease a baking tin (I used an 8 inch round tin which makes a lovely deep farmhouse style cake) and pour in the mix.
Bake in an oven preheated to gas mark 4/180c for an hour and 10 mins. If it is not cooked, check every 10 mins to see if it is cooked through by pressing a skewer into the middle, when it comes out clean it is cooked through.
Remove from the oven and turn out onto a wire rack to go cold.
Once cold make up the buttercream by whisking the sunflower spread with icing sugar, spread on top of the cake.
Place your remaining coconut on a baking tray and put under the grill for 2-3 mins to brown. Allow to cool for 5 mins then sprinkle on top of your cake!

Nutritional Information (Per slice)

Cals

400

Carbs

56_g

Fibre

2_g

Fat

17_g

Sugar

36_g

Protein

4_g

Last updated 8th August 2025

Alison Peters has been Coeliac since June 2014 and launched Coeliac Sanctuary in August of that year, and since then has aimed to provide a one stop shop for Coeliacs, from blogs, to recipes, eating out guide and online shop.

Comments

Jenny14th November 2023

I try different recipes for my lovely niece. This was so easy to make and tastes delicious.

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