Coconut Key Lime Bread
This is one AMAZING bread! Coconut Key Lime Bread is a soft bread that explodes with flavor in every bite!
Coconut and key lime is a heavenly flavor combination and this bread is pure heaven. Every bite will make your toes curl! Yeap, this bread is like an orgasm for your taste buds. Coconut goes like “POW” and key lime goes “POW” and together they go “BOOM” and you kick back with your feet up and imagine that you are on a sunny beach, enjoying this Coconut Key Lime Bread.
For this wonderful bread, I use fresh coconut and it was the best choice. It’s been a long time since I’ve made my own coconut flakes. Opening a coconut was never my favorite part, actually, I used to hate it. I love coconut, but didn’t feel like wrestling with it all night. I remember spending about 2 hours tring to open it with a hammer when I was a kid.
But no more! I’ve learned an incredibly easy way to open a coconut in less than a minute! Thanks to Lisa and her awesome post on How to Crack a Coconut, I’m fresh coconut happy now. So I used fresh coconut flakes for this bread and froze the rest. You don’t have to use homemade coconut flakes, you can use store-bought to save yourself some time.
I also soaked the coconut in some skim milk to give it a little moisture. Squeeze the coconut flakes after soaking them for a few minutes and enjoy some coconut milk!
Coconut Key Lime Bread
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups bread flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/2 Tbsp. coconut oil
- 1 1/4 cup low fat buttermilk
- 1 cup sweetened coconut flakes
- 1 lime - zest
Instructions
- Pre-bake the oven to 350 and grease an 8x4 inch bread pan.
- Soak the coconut flakes in some skim milk (you can use other milk if you want) for about 5 minutes. Squeeze the coconut flakes and set aside (drink or discard the milk).
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar, coconut oil and buttermilk.
- Pour the liquids into the flour mixture. Whisk until all the ingredients are well combined.
- Whisk in the coconut flakes and key lime zest.
- Transfer the dough into the bread pan and spread it evenly.
- Sprinkle a little more coconut flakes on top.
- Bake for 55-60 minutes (until the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.)
Nutrition
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Want to make this recipe but my mom she loves coconut & she can have everything of coconut except white shreds of coconut she’s allergic! What would be a good substitute for the coconut shreds but still keep the same flavor?
I am guessing she is allergic to coconut but can have artificial flavoring? This bread gets a lot of its moisture from the soaked coconut flakes you can take them out but it will not be the same texture and will be a bit dry, if you make it like that adjust the cooking time because it will cook faster.
A better option may be to make my coconut banana bread. It gets moisture from the bananas. You can take out the coconut flakes and replace them with a teaspoon of artificial coconut extract and extra banana.
Here is a link to that recipe: https://www.willcookforsmiles.com/coconut-banana-bread/
I love that you used fresh coconut, Lyuba! I just made a Lemon Coconut bread but I cheated…..you’re showing me up! Haha
Hehe, I’m sure it tasted awesome, Cathy!
Thank you!!
When you describe something as “pow, pow, wow, orgasm” pretty sure I need to make this!
Bahahahaha…you summed it up nicely 🙂
Thank you, Julie! Hope you get a chance to make it!
…Still laughing 😀
This bread looks soooo good Lyuba! Pinned and shared on FB!
You are so sweet! Thank you, Trish!
This is just gorgeous! I love baking with coconut oil and buttermilk. Makes everything so soft! pinned
Thank you so much, Averie!
Loving this big O bread!! I am betting this taste just like heaven… and with the buttermilk, the texture is amazing!
Haha, thank you, Gloria!!
Lyuba, this looks incredible! I love fresh coconut and I can imagine how awesome this must taste. Thanks for sharing and pinning – happy Friday!
Thank you so much, Cindy!!
Visiting from I’m Loving Link Up. I like how you’ve used fresh coconut in this, I bet it tasted wonderful!
It really did! Thank you, Laura!
Coconut is one of my favorites. This sounds incredible. pinning.
Thank you so much, Norma!
So many good breads all in one place, and each one sounds delicious. I would never have thought to make bread with coconut and lime.
Oh yes, it’s a great combo! Thank you, Linda!
That certainly sounds yummy. I love quick breads — the smell in the house is heavenly and then the reward is the bread itself. Thank you for the tip on the coconut– I will definitely check it out. I see you use KA flour. That’s all we buy — in 50 pound bags although we’ve just ordered 25 lbs. of Caputo “00” flour. Love the photos. Now that we’re home I’m planning on painting some would for staging.
Thank you so much, Marisa! I love KA flour and I hope that I could find some all-purpose at my stores.
Do you need to use bread flour? Or can you use all purpose?
I would suggest using bread flour because of the higher protein content. The texture will be much better. If you don’t have access to bread flour, try all purpose. I don’t think the difference will be huge since this is not a yeast bread.
Yummmmmm that bread looks SO GOOD. I love coconut and lime. Thanks for linking to my how to crack a coconut page and I’m glad it helped =D
Of course!! Thank you, Lisa!