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Chocolate coconut slice

Course: Snack

Ingredients
  

BASE
  • 560 g plain flour
  • 550 g caster sugar
  • 40 g cocoa powder
  • 280 g desiccated coconut
  • 625 g butter melted
  • 3 tsp vanilla essence
ICING
  • 875 g icing sugar
  • 40 g cocoa powder
  • 150 g butter melted
  • hot water

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 160c
  2. Grease and line a gastronome tray with baking paper
  3. Mix dry ingredients for base
  4. Add melted butter and essence
  5. Press into tray
  6. Bake for 15 mins
  7. Cool slightly
ICING
  1. Sift icing sugar and cocoa together
  2. Add melted butter
  3. Slowly add enough hot water until the icing becomes the right consistency
  4. Spread evenly over slice
  5. Sprinkle with coconut