Caribbean Coconut Quick Bread Food

CARIBBEAN COCONUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a loaf pan with butter.
• Combine flour, sugar, coconut, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl; stir once or twice with a wooden spoon. Add eggs, milk, water, oil, coconut extract, vanilla extract, and cinnamon. Mix well until batter is blended.
• Pour batter into the greased loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.

CARIBBEAN COCONUT QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Mix flour, coconut, sugar (if you're using), baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Mash in the pineapple juice, banana and egg.
• Pour into a floured pan (8" square works well) and bake for 45-50 minutes.
• Let cool and wrap tightly to store in the fridge. Or don't, and eat it straight from the pan, like I end up doing!

CARIBBEAN COCONUT BAKE

Steps:

• Stir together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in a medium sized bowl. Cut in the butter until you have a coarse, mealy texture.
• Add the grated coconut and coconut milk and stir until a soft dough forms.
• Gather into a ball, cover, and let rest for 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 400*F Shape dough into 7 inch round, and place on greased baking sheet.
• Bake until golden, about 20 minutes. Cool about 30 minutes and serve while still slightly warm.

COCONUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour a 9- by 5- by 3-inch loaf pan, knocking out excess flour.
• Toast and grind coconut:
• Spread 3 cups coconut in a large shallow baking pan (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.) Cool completely in pan on a rack, about 15 minutes, then grind in a food processor to a coarse meal, about 40 seconds (you will have about 1 1/4 cups). Leave oven on.
• Make batter:
• Stir together self-rising flour, ground coconut, and remaining cup (untoasted) coconut in a large bowl. Beat together butter and sugar in another bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until pale and creamy, 1 to 2 minutes. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Whisk 1 cup water into flour mixture, then add egg mixture, whisking just until well blended.
• Bake bread:
• Pour batter into loaf pan, smoothing top with a spatula, and bake in middle of oven until a wooden skewer inserted in center comes out clean and top is evenly brown, 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cool bread to warm in pan on a rack, 10 to 15 minutes, then turn out of pan and set right side up on rack to cool completely, about 2 hours more. Cut into 1-inch-thick slices.

COCONUT BREAD (GUYANA -- CARIBBEAN)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F & grease two 9-inch loaf pans.
• In a small bowl, add dried fruit & 1/4 cup of the 4 cups of flour, then strain flour into a large bowl, leaving the dried fruit coated with a bit of flour. Set the dried fruit aside.
• In that same large bowl, add the rest of the flour then whisk together the flour, baking powder & salt, before adding the sugar, beaten egg, milk, melted margarine, vanilla extract & coconut milk, whisking to combine well.
• Stir in the grated coconut & dried fruit, blending well. If necessary, knead briefly on a floured surface.
• Cut dough in half & shape each half into loaves, & placing them in the prepared loaf pans.
• Bake for 50-55 minutes or until golden brown.