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Sanae Ishida

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April 9, 2013

Coconut Bread

When I made the granola last week, I ended up with a lot of extra shredded coconut. I tossed the bag into the fridge and yesterday morning, as I was rummaging for something that wasn’t cheddar bunnies to put in K’s lunch, I paused at the sight of so much coconut.

I powered up my ipad and skimmed through my go-to cooking site (where the granola recipe originated as well), and voila, three posts in, a recipe for coconut bread! And I conveniently had all the ingredients in the house. It felt like kismet.

I whipped it up and an hour and fifteen minutes later, I had an aromatic, golden loaf. I couldn’t wait for it to cool off completely and sliced right into it, releasing steamy puffs of fresh-baked goodness.

Delicious. I brewed up my afternoon latte, plunked a couple of pats of butter on the slices and thoroughly enjoyed my snack.

I do have to mention that if you’re not a coconut lover, this is not for you. It’s a rich-but-not-too-heavy cake-y bread with minimal sweetness, and the coconut flavor really shines.

The only changes I made were to replace part of the sugar with a 1/4 cup of dark brown sugar and reduced the cinnamon to 1 tsp. It’s perfect. Recipe is here.

 

 

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  1. Sophie says

    April 9, 2013 at 10:22 am

    I’ll have to give it a go. A friend of mine just made it and she ate it so fast she didn’t have time to take pictures 🙂

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    • sanae says

      April 9, 2013 at 9:27 pm

      It really is super yummy. My husband and I have been gobbling it up!

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  2. Sarvi says

    April 9, 2013 at 12:06 pm

    My favorite cooking site too! I saw that, and wanted to make it but we’re still trying to clear our last batch of Deb’s buttermilk berry bundt from the fridge 🙂

    You know, I think this is actually not a bread at all — there’s no kneading, no proofing and punching down, no shaping, and most of all, no yeast! I believe that there is a cake. But SHHHH — tell no one — I am going to try to pass it off as a loaf of bread, that sounds somehow healthier, haha.

    (Aha, Deb beat me to it!: “It was one of those loaves we confusingly call “bread” — like banana or any other quick bread — but are actually cake”)

    Either way, gosh it looks so good! I love coconut, tastes like sunshine…

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    • sanae says

      April 9, 2013 at 9:27 pm

      Deb is the best! The buttermilk berry bundt is definitely on my to-do list. And you’re right, I should put quotes around the word bread 🙂

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  3. Lucinda says

    April 9, 2013 at 4:24 pm

    It looks delicious (esp. with the butter on it!), but alas, not being a coconut lover, it will be one recipe to forgo. Glad you could enjoy a yummy afternoon snack along with your latte:)

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    • sanae says

      April 9, 2013 at 9:24 pm

      Coconut is definitely not for everyone – it’s actually not until recently that I started to really love it, Lucinda 🙂

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  4. liz f says

    April 13, 2013 at 12:05 pm

    We’ve made this loaf three times recently! We love it. I keep wondering if I could add banana to it without messing up the consistency.

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    • sanae says

      April 14, 2013 at 12:46 am

      Ooh, banana would be a great addition! Let me know if you try it and it turns out yummy 🙂

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