Last updated on April 14th, 2025
I just discovered (and bought) a beautiful vegetarian cook book called “The Cake the Buddha Ate”! I LOVE it! And not surprising it came out of KwaZulu Natal’s very own Buddhist Retreat Centre, which I have been lucky enough to visit many years ago with one of my special friends, Amanda. So this recipe has been adapted from their book – the original recipe has ginger in but I didn’t have any so I just did lemon and coconut which is an amazing combination if ya ask me!!
I love the recipe because of its simplicity and because these little bars are great sidekicks to a steaming cup of Five Roses tea…and you know how much I loooove tea 🙂
Lemon and Coconut Bars
Prep Time: 20 minutes- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
Yield: 15 bars 1x
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A perfect combination of flavours!
Ingredients
- 60g butter
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 ½ cups cake flour
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup desiccated coconut
- 1 tablespoon lime zest
- 1 egg
- Icing
- 1 ½ cups icing sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon warm water
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C and grease a rectangular baking dish with butter or Spray and Cook
- In a saucepan, melt the butter and honey together
- Combine the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and then add the melted butter and honey into the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Add the egg and mix well again.
- Press the mixture into the baking dish and bake for approximately 25 minutes until lightly browned.
- Combine all the Icing ingredients together, except for the zest. If the mixture is too thick, just add a little extra water.
- Once the cake has cooled, spread the icing over the base and then sprinkle with the zest.
- Cut into squares and enjoy with a cuppa tea!
Thanks Charliesmith for the share