Recipe / australian
Chocolate Coconut Squares
4servings
Ingredients
- 1 100g — Butter
- 1 100g — Caster Sugar
- 2 pcs — Egg
- 1 140g — Self-raising Flour
- 1 teaspoon — Baking Powder
- 2 tablespoons — Cocoa Powder
- 2 tablespoons — Milk
- 1 100g — Plain Chocolate
- 1 25g — Butter
- 1 100g — Icing Sugar
- 1 100g — Desiccated Coconut
Steps
- step 1
- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line the base of a 20cm square baking tin. Beat together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy, then beat in the eggs. Add 1 tbsp of the flour if the mix starts to curdle.
- step 2
- Sieve in the flour, baking powder and cocoa and fold in with a metal spoon. Stir in the milk. Scrape mix into the tin and level the top. Bake for 18-20 mins or until the cake springs back when pressed. Allow to cool in the tin.
- step 3
- To make the icing, put the chocolate, butter and 4 tbsp water in a pan and gently heat until melted. Allow to cool slightly, then beat in the icing sugar.
- step 4
- Remove cake from tin and peel away paper. Cut into 16 squares. Dip the squares into the icing, then roll in the coconut. Allow to set on cooling rack.