Скачать или смотреть 🍫🥥 CHOCOLATE COCONUT SLICE

🍫 Chocolate Coconut Slice (Balanced & Lighter Version)
This is a snack I used to pack in my children's lunch boxes.
While on the road it is an easy snack to bring on the road when I am out doing inspections. Hope you like it as much as my family do.

Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 23–25 minutes
Total: ~35 minutes
Serves: 16 slices

🧺 Ingredients
Base
125 g butter, melted & cooled (or 113.5 g for lighter version)
1 cup (200 g) brown sugar, firmly packed
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup self-raising flour
30 g cocoa powder (¼ cup)
1 cup desiccated coconut

Icing
2 tbsp icing sugar
1 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tbsp butter, finely chopped
2–2½ tbsp boiling water
2 tbsp desiccated coconut (optional)

Method
Preheat oven to 180°C fan-forced. Line a 20 × 20 cm tin with baking paper.
Combine melted butter, brown sugar, egg and vanilla.
Sift in flour and cocoa. Add coconut. Stir until just combined.
Spread evenly into tin.
Bake 15–20 minutes, until just set in the centre.
While warm, prepare icing:
Sift icing sugar and cocoa
Stir in butter and boiling water until smooth
Spread icing over warm slice.
Sprinkle with coconut if using.
Cool completely before slicing.
Storage
Airtight container: up to 5 days
Freeze: up to 3 months (baking paper between layers)