I have never been able to bake so I invested 20p in a cookery book from local church sale and I have made a cherry and coconut cake and a walnut and coffee cake. I am so impressed with my baking.

You can't beat a good 'old' cookery book, i pick them up in charity shops

rachel i think sinkim will be looking for that she has been trying to find recipe to make cherry and coconut cake or at least i think it was those 2 things

No worries Kim I will share my culinary skills with her

there's a recipe for cherry coconut cake at last....please please please share it!lol

told you lol

Mix the sponge from a victoria sponge recipe add chopped cherries and shavings of coconut, put in the oven and ta da!!!!
Was i right??

Um Clare, I think that'd make it really heavy and dry, coconut takes all the moisure when you cook with it, which is why it's really hard to find a good coconut cake recipe!

^moisture!lol

use diluted coconut milk as the liquid in the cake mix.........

who mentioned moist

12OZ SR flour
pinch of salt
6oz margerine
8oz glazed cherries
2oz dessicated coconut
6oz caster sugar
2 large eggs
1/4 pint milk
granulatred sugar.

grease an 8" round cake tin. sift the flour and salt into a bowl and rub in margerine.

quater the cherries toss them in the coconut and add with the sugar into the flour stiring lightly to combine.

and stir into the mixture together with the milk to give a stiff but dropping consistency.


Turn the mix into tin and sprinkle with granulated sugar
Bake in center of oven gas mark 4 for ABOUT 11/4 hours.(time may be 5-10 min longer it was for mine)

This cake was fab really moist not dry at all I was well impressed with myself for making it.....Move over Fanny Craddock

Fanny makes it Moist

Rob I knew you would think the worst

that's not the worst

STAND IN THE CORNER BAD BAD BOY

sorry Miss

Im ashamed ffs

Recipe looks brill Rachel! I have to try it

rubs hands together