Coconut-Lemon Bundt Cake

Hot on the heels of yesterday's Lower Fat Deep Chocolate Bundt Cake, I decided to try the neighbouring recipe from Veganomicon: Coconut-Lemon Bundt Cake.  I don't think I've ever made a coconut cake before and rarely make anything lemony so this is a departure from the norm.

Having poured a whole can of coconut milk as well as 2/3 cup of oil into the recipe, along with a whole load of sugar, I am feeling today's cake might be somewhat less virtuous than yesterday's.  Definitely need to take it all to work tomorrow and hope it's a hit.

On taking it out of the oven it smells very sweet but ever so slightly like Thai curry, I guess due to the coconut plus citrus flavours.  Looked lovely and golden and seems to have risen well, if not too well - 10 minutes worth of praying it didn't sink before I could turn it out.

Alas! Due to the cake rising well, the top surface was not flat, so when I turned it over onto the flat wire rack, some of the cake split from the rest.  Looks very moist inside though.

Briefly considered making a lemon glaze before remembering it already has enough calories to feed the 5,000, so decided to follow the cookbook's suggestion of a small dusting of icing sugar.

Update!  I completely failed to say how completely delicious this cake was.  Beautiful light texture, really moist from the coconut milk, lovely taste, neither the lemon nor the coconut overpowering.  Rated by my boss as 'one of your best'. Definitely recommended and I will make again when feeling skinny (maybe another trip to Morocco is in order).