Homemade Recipes

Ingredients:

3 cups icing sugar

½ cup milk

25g butter or margarine

½ tsp salt

3/4 cup desiccated coconut

Pink food colouring

Method:

In a saucepan, combine icing sugar, milk, butter and salt. 

Heat on medium heat until it boils, and takes on candy-like quality.

To test whether its reached ‘candy-like quality, wait until the mixture is bubbling, take a teaspoonful and drop it into a bowl of cold water.

If the mixture balls up when cool, it’s the right consistency.

Add your coconut to the saucepan and give a quick stir to combine.

Take off the heat and divide into two bowls.  Allow to cool for 5 minutes; it should start to firm.

Mix one portion, either with a hand-mixer or stand mixture to ensure all ingredients are well combined and don't separate.

Press into a small greased tray (a small loaf tin works well) and put aside.

Put the other portion in your mixing bowl and add a few drops of food colouring, mix as the first portion and then press on top of the first portion.

Refrigerate for 2 hours.

Cut into desired portions and store in airtight container in the fridge.