Women's Weekly Vintage Edition: Ginger coconut slice
This slice has everything you could possibly want in an afternoon treat; sweet, zesty and packed with coconut, no-one will be able to resist.
- 20 mins preparation
- 30 mins cooking
- Makes 8
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Ingredients
Ginger coconut slice
- 60 gram butter, chopped
- 1 tablespoon golden syrup
- 1 cup (150 g) self-raising flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 cup (110 g) caster sugar
- 1/2 cup (45 g) coconut
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
Lemon icing
- 1 1/2 cup (240 g) icing sugar mixture
- 40 gram soft butter
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice, approximately
Method
Ginger coconut slice
- 1Combine butter and golden syrup in a medium pan and stir over heat until the butter is melted. Stand until warm.
- 2Stir in sifted dry ingredients, sugar, coconut and egg; press mixture over base of greased 19 cm x 29 cm rectangular slice pan.
- 3Bake in a moderate oven for about 30 minutes or until lightly browned and firm. Cool in pan.
- 4To make lemon icing, sift icing sugar into small heatproof bowl and stir in butter, rind and enough juice to make a stiff paste. Stir over hot water until spreadable.
- 5Spread the slice with lemon icing and leave to set.