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Coconut Ice Sweets Recipe

Coconut ice is a traditional British sweet, many of us remember from our childhoods.

Coconut Ice Sweets Recipe
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Ingredients

For the recipe:
  • 397g Can of sweetened condensed milk (can use coconut sweetened condensed milk)
  • 500g Icing sugar, sieved
  • 350g Desiccated coconut (organic if possible)
  • Few drops of red/pink food colouring (optional)

I remember eating this sweet when i was a child. My grandad used to buy a bar and share it while watching tv. A grainy textured bar that left sticky sweet fingers

Method

01
Line a 20cm cake tin with baking paper.
02
In a bowl, mix together the condensed milk and the sieved icing sugar, then stir in the desiccated coconut.
03
Now divide the mixture into 2. Put the first half into the prepared cake tin and press it into all the edges.
04
Add the food colouring to the second half of coconut mixture and knead until the colour is evenly through. Put this into the tin on top of the white layer and spread out.
05
Leave to set in a cool place, then cut it out into 1-2 cm squares.