This bread will fill the house with the most amazing smell & full your tummy with happiness! It is lovely served warm straight from the oven or toasted. The wonderful flavors of honey, lemon & coconut swirl around in your mouth & it is a very filling, satisfying breakfast or snack. It is best served with a big dollop of grass fed butter!
Coconut & Lemon Bread
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Author: Caralee
Recipe type: Paleo Bread
Serves: 8
Ingredients
- 2 cups desiccated coconut
- ⅔ cup coconut flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 lemons
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 6 eggs
Instructions
- Turn the oven on to pre-heat at 180/350 degrees.
- In a food processor place the dry ingredients & whiz on high until combined & flour like.
- Grate the rind of one lemon & add to the dry ingredients.
- Juice the two lemons.
- In a bowl combine the wet ingredients & whisk.
- Add to the dry ingredients & whiz in food processor until combined.
- Line a loaf tin with baking paper & pour the batter into the loaf tin.
- Place in the oven for 25 -30 minutes or until the skewer comes out clean.
- Enjoy.
Notes
This bread can be sliced up & frozen, them toasted.
This looks great can’t wait to make it! Great having a recipe that is gluten free with that almond meal in it!!!
Thanks for stopping by. Yes it is a good one & amazing how bready it comes out!
Thanks this sound wonderful
Hi Kate, thanks for stopping into my blog. I hope you enjoy the recipe.
This sounds delish, but cant have eggs. Any suggestions on substitution for the 6 eggs?
Hi Alice, thanks for stopping by. Hmmm I don’t know what you could use. I have tried to bake this type of bread before without eggs when I have run out but it turns out very crumbly. You could try coconut milk & oil or butter but I am not sure how that will work. 🙂
Ok to use normal flour in place of coconut flour? Plain? Self raising?
Hi Joelyne. Thanks for stopping by. Coconut flour is very absorbent, much more than normal flour, so you would have to maybe double it, but I can’t tell you exactly as I don’t use any wheat flour in any of my recipes.
Have just made this bread……,delicious couldnt wait for it to cool down or toast. It’s beautiful
Hi Sharon. I am glad that you enjoyed it :)x
i tried this and it did not turn out! 🙁 it didnt turn brown on the outsides. very moist (too much i think). left it in for longer than asked because it didnt look right… what am i doing wrong!? this is the 3rd time ive tried making grain free bread… thanks
Awww Amanada that is a shame. I am not sure why it is not working out for you. Maybe your oven is not the best, or you could try cooking at a lower heat for longer.
Hi! Just made this, its in the oven now and the dough came out very thick, not “pourable” almost like cookie dough, is that right? If not what could it be, the only think I can think of is my eggs were on the small side.
Hi Erika. It is quite a think mixture, not like cookie dough but you can’t pour it, you have to scoop it out into the loaf tin. Maybe your eggs were on the small side. You could try again and add one more egg. Good Luck. 🙂
It turned out delicious although very dense like a pound cake! Thank you for your reply and the recipe!!
That is great news Erika 🙂
Is the coconut sweetened or unsweetened?
Hi Ashley. Thanks for stopping by. It is unsweetened, nothing else added. xx
Sounds great! Wonder if you could use this as a base recipe for muffins and add blueberries? Yum!
Hi Leigh. Thanks for stopping by. Yes you could, that is a great idea. Let me know how you go with that. :)x
Do you know the approximate calories of this bread? 🙂
Hi Sarah. Thanks for stopping by. No I don’t but if you wanted to work it out you could hop online and punch in each of the ingredients to a nutritional calculator and then work out how many serves and go from there. Just a thought of how you could work it out. 🙂 xx
Love it Caralee. Can’t wait to try! xxx
Hi Jo 🙂
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. This one is perfect for the thermie 🙂
I made this bread and it turned out ok, I think. It’s very dry, almost hard to swallow and the taste is also a little different than I expected; not sweet at all. This is the first bread of its kind that I’ve made, so I have nothing else to compare it to. Maybe next time I’ll add some coconut oil..
Hi Patty. Thanks for stopping buy and trying a recipe out. Maybe it was cooked a little too long and that is why it is dry. You could try to add coconut oil that would work. Thanks for your comments, I love hearing how my recipes turn out for other people. 🙂
This seems a silly question but can this be frozen whole?
Hi there. Yes it can be or you can slice it up and then freeze it so that it is easier to take one slice at a time 🙂
Just made this today and can’t believe how yummy it is! Great texture and the lemon is beautiful!
This sounds delicious! I’m definitely trying it!
-Kristine
I made this last night to go with dinner. This bread is fantastic!! My kids loved it. It is delectable if you add honey on the warm slices. We will be making this again.
Hi Amanda. That is fantastic that you loved it, thanks for sharing 🙂
I loved the look of this so it is in the oven as we speak. What should the actual mixture look like?
Hi. It is quite a thick mixture and not very runny. I hope that you liked it.
Thank you, that does help. Can I mix the dry ingredients in a NutriBullet??
Hi There. I have never used a nutribullet so I am unsure of the size or how effective it would be. Sorry I don’t have the answer on that one. 🙂
I think once I get used to using coconut flour, it is will be an awesome replacement. This bread was so yummy. Will let you know how it goes using the nutribullet
Yes please, let me know. Coconut flour is amazing, but it is a bit of a change to traditional flour. 🙂
Would it be ok to skip the honey and use stevia instead?
Hi Janet. You can use what ever your preferred sweetener is, it will come out just as good. 🙂
Thanks!!
hi there, my loaf turned out orange?? Probably from the egg yolks, I definately only used 6 tho. Your loaf looks very white compared to mine???
Hi Sarah. I am not sure why that would be except maybe your eggs were super yellow/orange. As long as it tasted really good, that is the main thing 🙂 xx
Hi Caralee, thanks for this (and all your other) beautiful recipes. I’ve made my first batch and devoured it with some natural yogurt – delicious! It was a little drier than expected, so next time I’ll bake it for a little less time. If I was to add some coconut oil (as you suggested in a comment above), how much would you recommend that I add?
Hi Sumi. I am glad that you are enjoying the recipes. Maybe add 1/4 cup of coconut oil to see if that helps keep in moist. xx
I made this recipe in muffinmalls. After baking i put them directly in platic bags , so they will not be dry. I will use them for muffins, with coconut cream and mangoyelly made from mango and agar agar. Instead of lemonjuice i used orange juice because of alergy for lemon. I used agavesirop instead of honey.