Coconut Ice
Cookie & Bar, Dessert, Pie, Cake, Ice Cream
Ingredients
5 1/4 cup (840g) icing sugar
2 1/2 cup (200g) desiccated coconut
395 gram canned sweetened condensed milk
1 egg white lightly beaten
pink or peach food colouring
Description
Coconut ice is an ever-popular sweet treat, where you're looking for something quick and easy to bring along to a cake stall, a kids' party, or to add to a dessert bar - these pastel pink sweets always go down a treat.
20 mins preparation + refrigeration
Directions
Grease a 19cm (8-inch) square cake pan; line base and sides with baking paper, extending the paper 5cm (2 inches) over the sides.
Sift icing sugar into a large bowl; stir in coconut, then condensed milk and egg white until almost combined. Use your hands to finish combining the ingredients well.
Divide mixture into two bowls; tint one mixture with pink or peach colouring.
Press coloured mixture into pan; level the surface. Top with remaining mixture; level the surface.
Cover pan; refrigerate about 3 hours or until set before cutting into squares.
How to make coffee coconut ice
Dissolve 2 teaspoons instant coffee granules in 1 teaspoon boiling water.
In step 3, add coffee mixture to one bowl of mixture instead of food colouring, with an extra 2 tablespoons desiccated coconut.