Having cake but not being able to eat it

 

Baked late last night and iced this morning, here is the Coconut, Lime and cardamom cake ---just a few of the many pieces.  Not exactly equally cut but a size for every appetite.  This is using Diana Henry's recipe for Lime, cardamom and coconut cake which I had spied through my newsfeed a week or so back. The only change I made was the use of Goat's butter instead of standard butter. Made in an oblong tin rather than the round shape in the recipe.  I haven't baked many coconut cakes, and the technique given in the recipe about soaking the coconut in hot water helped to make soft juicy coconut shreds to put in the cake.

The cake was tasted at a gathering of ladies this morning, with a piece or two or three remaining for us to have this afternoon.  On the return from the dentist Mr S will sadly be watching me have my second piece of the day, as he must not eat anything but sops for another 24 hrs.  "Yippy", I said, porridge for breakfast tomorrow, but he doesn't really like porridge, though he get to have it once a week.  He said porridge has bits in it.  He is just going to have yogurt.  I reckon a piece will keep till tomorrow afternoon/