Chocolate Coconut Slice

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 3 weet-bix (wholewheat breakfast biscuits)
• 85 g desiccated coconut
• 120 g caster sugar
• 150 g self-raising flour
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 150 g butter or 150 g margarine
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1 1/2 cups of soft icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon cocoa, extra
• 2 tablespoons hot water

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180°c.
• 2 grease a 16x26cm baking pan and line with baking paper. break up the wholewheat buscuits into a large mixing bowl with the coconut and sugar. into the same bowl sift in the cocoa and self-raising flour and stir.
• 3 melt the butter and pour of the dry ingredients, add vanilla essence and stir till well combined. (i usually add the essence to the melted butter first).
• 4 spoon mixture into prepared pan and press down to level. bake for 15 minutes or until cooked.
• 5 icing: sift icing sugar and cocoa into a small mixing bowl. add the hot water and stir well. ice slice while it is still warm.
• 6 cut into squares to serve.