Coconut Ice

A delicious and easy sweet to make! For a truly vegetarian recipe, please see note in bold below...

Coconut Ice

Ingredients:

750g icing sugar
300g desiccated coconut
400ml condensed milk
Vanilla essence
Blue or green food colouring ****** (see note below)

Method:

1. Lightly grease and line a small square cake tin.

2. Using a large bowl, sift in the icing sugar and add the desiccated coconut. Mix well.

3. Add the condensed milk and a splash of vanilla essence mix until well combined. If dry add small amounts of water until just moist.

4. Halve mixture. Using one half, flatten it out evenly into the tin. It may help to use a glass to flatten.

5. Colour the other half of the mixture with about 10 drops of food colouring.

6. Flatten the coloured mixture on top of the white.

7. Set in fridge for about 1 hour or until hard.

8. Cut into small pieces and serve or store in an airtight container.


******NOTE: If you want to make a vegetarian coconut ice recipe, you CAN NOT use red or pink food colouring as this is made from crushing the bodies of the Cochineal Beetle to release their red colour.

Rating: 5!