Lime Coconut Bundt Cake delivers a delicious slice of the tropics with fresh island flavors any time of year!
Lime Coconut Bundt Cake
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
Once again, the time has come for the Bundt Bakers to get together and share cake recipes. It has been a very long winter if not so much a cold one, and all of us are in need of a tropical vacation!
For me, thinking tropical evokes images of coconut palms swaying in the warm breeze of some island. But if I had a coconut cake, what to add in with it to give a little pizzazz?
Well, it is St. Patrick’s Day! So I thought….GREEN. And the greenest thing that is tropical as well is lime, so I thought I might give it a go.
So this Bundt is tricked out with all things coconut: cream of coconut, coconut oil, coconut extract, coconut flakes…with the bit of zip from lime and of course the green (which isn’t necessary for the cake unless you want it).
But it’s fun. And while I was making it I found myself humming some Harry Nilsson. Well, sort of. I don’t think he ever sang it this way.
Sue got another one she paid it for the lime
I said “Bundt Bakers, for a delicious tropic cake?”
You put the lime in the cake and then you bake it all up,
Lime Coconut Bundt Cake

Prep: 15 min.
Cook: 45 min.
Cool: 1 hour
Ingredients:
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup coconut oil (liquified but cool)
- 1/2 cup Cream of Coconut (sweetened type; such as Coco Lopez)
- 1/2 cup fat free milk
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons lime oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon coconut extract
- zest of 2 limes
- 10 drops green food color (optional)
For icing:
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 2-3 tablespoons cream of coconut (sweetened type, such as Coco Lopez)
- 2-3 tablespoons sweeteend flaked coconut
- 1 tablespoon lime zest
Method:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Grease and flour the inside of a twelve cup nonstick bundt baking pan.
- Sift together the cake flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; place in the bowl of an electric stand mixer.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the coconut oil, cream of coconut, milk, eggs, lime oil, vanilla, coconut extract, lime zest and food coloring.
- Add wet mixture to the flour mix in the mixer and using a batter paddle, mix until smooth.
- Pour batter into cake pan.
- Bake cake for 45-50 minutes, or until a toothpick can be removed clean.
- Cool in pan ten minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack.
- When cake is completely cool, mix an icing with the powdered sugar and enough cream of coconut to make a drizzling consistency.
- Drizzle cake and sprinkle with a touch of coconut and lime zest for garnish.
From the kitchen of palatablepastime.com

#BundtBakers Tropical Vacation
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Don’t forget to take a peek at what other talented bakers have baked this month:
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- Banana Rum Cake by Jane’s Adventures in Dinner
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- Key Lime Bundt Cake by Taking On Magazines
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- Lime-Coconut Bundt Cake by Palatable Pastime
- Piña Colada Rum Bundt Cake by Making Miracles
- Pineapple Upside Down Coconut Cake by Adventures in All Things Food
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- Speckled Tropical Bundt Cake by I Camp in my Kitchen
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- Tropical Hummingbird Bundt Cake by Tartacadabra
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I didn’t realize that our day would fall on St. Patrick’s day until well after I chose the tropical theme. I would have definitely gone with green otherwise, so I’m so glad you were able to incorporate both! Your cake looks fantastic.
It was a cheat really, adding the green. Not so much without the food color. Next time I will make it without (on a normal day)
I really love how this cake looks…all the zest. Beautiful!
Thanks! The flavor is nicely bright (but not tart)
Yum! I love coconut anything, and I’m sure the addition of the lime brightens this up so much!
It has a ton of coconut flavor in there too!
Really beautiful cake, Sue, love the green addition, makes it very spring and holiday like 🙂
Yes, as long as it isn’t too-too green, but can be made without.
Wow, with yummy ingredients like that, this bundt cake has to taste amazing! 🙂
Thanks, it does!
What a delicious combo of flavors! And I love that lime on top! I wish I could taste some. Which means.. I will have to make it. 😀
We liked the flavor a lot! I hope you enjoy!
Great post. Love the version of the song and love the recipe!
It does invade like a good earworm, doesn’t it? LOL!
That’s some beautiful singing there, Sue. 😉
I like that you went green for a SPD & tropical day!
Thanks!