Coconut sheet cake from One Tin Bakes: Sweet and Simple Traybakes, Pies, Bars and Buns (page 22) by Edd Kimber

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Notes about this recipe

  • anya_sf on June 19, 2025

    I made 1/4 recipe in a 6"x6" pan for a coconut cake bake-off. Baking time for the thinner cake was 28 min. Coconut flavor was decent. While we appreciated a less-sweet cake, I think the texture suffered as a result. As others have said, the cake was rather dense and less moist than other cakes. The frosting was very sweet. While the cake was fine overall, it was our least favorite of the 5 we tested.

  • pinkpaisleyxx on August 28, 2024

    I also make all the cakes in this book in an 8" x 8" square tin and half the recipe - which works perfectly. So many good recipes in this book!

  • trudys_person on March 03, 2024

    @IvyManning Every recipe in this book is formulated for a 9" x 13" cake pan - same for One Tin Bakes Easy. I think it's a standard size and easy to find in US cookware shops - definitely easy to find in Canada and the UK! Also, an 8" x 8" pan will work for a half recipe. You'll just have to lower the baking time a bit ...

  • IvyManning on February 17, 2024

    This recipe requires both coconut oil and butter in a high fat to sugar ratio. It's unusual in that it requires 5 egg whites, but they aren't whipped before folding into the mix, so it's not a particularly light cake and kinda a waste of yolks. Still don't understand why you'd only use the whites, headnotes don't shed much light on method here. Also of note, there are no pan sizes, so it's a wild guess whether a standard 9x 10 would work. That's what I used and the cake turned out a kind of weird dry and crumbly, not awful, but not worth the effort, either. I have tried a few other recipes from this book that were okay (matcha roll and cherry evoo cake) they worked out ok, but for s baking book, I think this one lacks rigorous editing/writing FWIW or the translation from British style to American kitchens was phoned in, at best. Would not recommend this book to beginners

  • Kinhawaii on April 04, 2021

    I thought it would be lighter- so not sure whether it is due to my technique or lack of it or ?, but it came out like a coconut pound cake. I am not a fan of plain dried coconut so toasted it for the topping & put a few strawberries on top. Not a repeat for me because I would like a delicate not sturdy coconut cake.

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