Coconut Bread

This is a very tasty and moist cake...I mean, bread! I've posted the recipe as it was given to me, but I make it, I leave out the walnuts and don't make the topping. It's pretty sweet without the topping.

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Serves: 10
• Yields: 1 loaf

Ingredients

• Bread

• 4  eggs
• 2  cups sugar
• 1  cup  oil
• 3  cups flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1  cup buttermilk
• 2  teaspoons  coconut flavoring
• 1  cup coconut
• 1  cup walnuts

• Topping

• 1  tablespoon butter
• 1⁄2 cup water
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  teaspoon  coconut flavoring

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325.
2. For the bread, mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl.
3. Mix the wet ingredients in a separate bowl. In place of buttermilk, you can mix 1 Tbsp vinegar with 1 cup milk and let it sit 5 minutes before using.
4. Combine the wet and dry ingredients together.
5. Pour into 1 loaf pan.
6. Bake 40 minutes (I always increase the time 5-10 minutes).
7. While the bread is baking, make the topping.
8. Combine butter, water and sugar into a sauce pan.
9. Boil to make a syrup (it didn't say how long, and since I've never made the topping, I don't know either!).
10. Add the flavoring at the end.
11. When the bread is finished baking, make slits in the top.
12. Drizzle syrup over the top to soak inches.