Coconut Cake

Ever since mini-Mi started solids, I've been on the hunt for delicious easy recipes for egg less cakes. I've had limited success with egg less baking so far with the exception of my go to banana muffin recipe, admittedly I haven't tried that many recipes but the ones I have tried so far don't have the same texture as cakes made with eggs. My dad's birthday was coming up and he loves coconut so this time around I decided to find a recipe for coconut cake and modify it by replacing eggs with another ingredient. I came across a recipe for Citrus Coconut Cake which had good reviews so decided to give it a go. I made slight modifications which are detailed below, in short, reduced the sugar by half, replaced eggs with natural yoghurt, replaced milk with coconut milk, added vanilla extract and up scaled the recipe by 1.5 times to make a slightly larger cake. Finally, I topped the cake off with some chocolate ganache and toasted shredded coconut. I was really pleased with the result, the cake was lovely, moist and crumbly a bit on the dense side but delicious flavours with just a touch of sweetness. Mi xo

Coconut Cake (adapted from Taste)

• 175 g unsalted softened butter
• 3/4 cup caster sugar
• 3/4 cup natural yoghurt
• 1 1/2 cup sifted self-raising flour
• 1 cup desiccated coconut
• 1 1/2 cup coconut milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Finely grated rind of 1 lemon

Banana & Blueberry Muffins

This recipe is a modification of Banana and Nutella Muffins which originally came from Two Red Bowls. Mini-Mi loves these muffins and so I decided to add a few more goodies (grated carrot and blueberries) to make them extra healthy! They also freeze and thaw really well, so a great snack for bub when you are on the go. I make these every week now! Mi xo

Banana & Blueberry Muffins (adapted from Two Red Bowls)

• 50 g unsalted butter (melted)
• 1 over ripe banana (mashed)
• 1 carrot (grated)
• 1 cup wholemeal flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• pinch of nutmeg
• 1/2 cup Greek yoghurt
• 1/2 cup blueberries

1. Preheat fan forced oven to 180 degrees Celsius
2. Add banana and carrot to melted butter
3. Sift dry ingredients and add to butter mixture
4. Gently mix in yoghurt then blueberries (I used fresh berries but you can use frozen too)
5. Spoon into 12 cup muffin tin lined with patty cases
6. Bake for 12 - 15 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.