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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Caribbean >> Rest Caribbean

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. | 2. Butter and flour a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan, knocking out excess flour. | 3. Spread 3 cups coconut in a large shallow baking pan (at least 1-inch deep) and toast in middle of oven, stirring occasionally, until evenly golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. (Watch flakes carefully; edges burn quickly.). | 4. Remove from oven and cool completely in pan on a rack, about 15 minutes. Leave oven on. | 5. In a food processor, grind toasted coconut to a coarse meal (about 40 seconds). You will have about 1 1/4 cups. | 6. In a mixing bowl stir together self-rising flour, ground coconut and remaining cup of un-toasted coconut. | 7. In another mixing bowl cream together the butter and sugar at medium speed until pale and creamy (1-2 minutes). | 8. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. | 9. Whisk the water into the flour mixture, then add egg mixture, whisking just until well blended. | 10. Pour batter into loaf pan, smoothing top with a spatula, and bake in the middle of the oven until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean and top is evenly brown (1 hour - 1 hour and 10 minutes.) | 11. Cool bread to warm in the pan on a rack for 10-15 minutes. then turn out of pan and set right side up on rack to cool completely, about 2 hours. | 12. Cut into 1-inch thick slices. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
coconut	4	cups	sweetened flaked	1132.8	48.736000000000004	10.655999999999999	107.16799999999999
self rising flour	2	cups		-	-	-	-
butter	1/2	cup	unsalted	684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
sugar	1/2	cup		402.99	100.79799999999999	0.0	0.0
egg	2			143.0	0.72	12.56	9.51
water	1	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.