Best Coconut Plantation Bread Recipes

COCONUT BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the sugar, oil, eggs and extract. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to sugar mixture alternately with buttermilk, stirring just until moistened. Fold in coconut and walnuts. , Pour into two greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. Bake at 325° for 60-65 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pans before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.

BARBADIAN COCONUT SWEET BREAD

Steps:

• preheat oven to 350.
• grease 2 1-lb loaf pans or 1 2-lb pan.
• place the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl and sift in all of the flour.
• rub ingredients together with your fingertips till the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
• add the coconut, mixed spice, vanilla, rum, eggs and milk.
• mix together well with your hands.
• if the mixture is too dry, add more milk.
• knead on a floured board till firm and pliable.
• halve the mixture and place in loaf pans.
• glaze with sugared water and bake for about 1 hour, till skewer inserted into loaf comes out clean.

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.

BAJAN SWEET BREAD (BARBADOS)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350*F and lightly grease a bread pan. The original recipe calls for 2 bread pans, but the bread doesn't rise at all so it bakes nicely in one pan.
• In a mixer cream together the brown sugar, shortening and butter.
• Add flour, salt, grated coconut, raisins, cherries, nutmeg and mix well.
• Stir in almond extract, evaporated milk, and water, until a firm dough is formed. (You may need to add additional water.).
• Split the dough evenly between the two pans, and use a knife to cut a diagonal criss-cross pattern on the top of each loaf. Sprinkle 1 tbsp turbinado sugar over the top of each loaf.
• Bake for about 1 hour, until a skewer inserted into the center of the loaves comes out clean (Or a digital thermometer reads 190*F.) Cool completely in the pans before removing.