Chocolate Coconut Squares
Ingredients
- 100g Butter
- 100g Caster Sugar
- 2 Egg
- 140g Self-raising Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 2 tablespoons Cocoa Powder
- 2 tablespoons Milk
- 100g Plain Chocolate
- 25g Butter
- 100g Icing Sugar
- 100g Desiccated Coconut
Instructions
step 1
Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line the base of a 20cm square baking tin. Beat together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy, then beat in the eggs. Add 1 tbsp of the flour if the mix starts to curdle.
step 2
Sieve in the flour, baking powder and cocoa and fold in with a metal spoon. Stir in the milk. Scrape mix into the tin and level the top. Bake for 18-20 mins or until the cake springs back when pressed. Allow to cool in the tin.
step 3
To make the icing, put the chocolate, butter and 4 tbsp water in a pan and gently heat until melted. Allow to cool slightly, then beat in the icing sugar.
step 4
Remove cake from tin and peel away paper. Cut into 16 squares. Dip the squares into the icing, then roll in the coconut. Allow to set on cooling rack.