Barbados: Sweet Bread

The Dish: Bread with raisins and coconut.  See original recipe here.
The Country: With a population of about 300,000, this island nation is the home of Rihanna.

the ingredients

Ingredients:
1/2 a stick of butter
3.5 cups of flour
Shredded coconut
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
Seedless raisins
1 cup of sugar (hello, clogged arteries)
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
1 cup of milk

the dough

Procedure:
Preheat the oven to 350°.
Melt the butter.
Mix the flour, salt, and baking powder together.  Add the egg, milk, melted butter, and vanilla extract.
Separately, mix the sugar with however many raisins you would like.  Add in a handful of shredded coconut. 
Take about 2/3 of the sugar/coconut/ raisin mix and add it to the flour mix.  Leave the rest of it to the side somewhere where your dog wont try and eat it. (My dog is a crazy scavenger who likes to eat whatever he finds, so I have to leave my weird cooking concoctions at the back of the counter or he'll have a feast of coconut shreddings and raisins.)
Add this new mixture to a greased baking tin.  Bake for 45 minutes- 1 hour, depending on the efficiency of your oven.
Sprinkle with some of the remaining sugar/raisin/coconut mix.
Cool.
Eat.

THE FINAL PRODUCT

Notes: "Wicked," my brother's response, not to the bread, but to the fact that Barbados is where Rihanna is from.  I think he liked the bread too, but he's a big Rihanna fan, so you never know.
Rating: 3