Coconut Ice

Coconut ice is simple to make and tastes delicious, as well as making a great gift when wrapped up and decorated with a ribbon.

Preparation

No cooking time.

Preparation time: 10 minutes & 50 minutes to set.

Makes: 30+ Pieces

Ingredients

• 750g icing sugar
• 300g desiccated coconut
• 400ml condensed milk
• Vanilla essence
• Pink food coloring

Method

1. Lightly grease and line small square cake tin.
2. Using a large bowl, sift icing sugar and add desiccated coconut, mix well.
3. Add condensed milk and a splash of vanilla essence mix until well combined, if dry add small amounts of water until moist.
4. Half mixture, flatten one half in the tin.
5. Color the other half of the mixture with about 10 drops of pink food coloring.
6. Flatten the remaining mixture on top.
7. Set in fridge for about 50 minutes or until hard.
8. Cut into small pieces.

Special thanks to hello naomi on flickr for the photo.