Description:

Cake/bar with cherries, coconut and chocolate

Source:

Rudy2

Serves/Makes:8

Ingredients

• 1 cup (225 ml) self raising flour
• 1 tbsp (15 ml) cocoa
• 1/3 cup (80 ml) sugar
• 100 g. butter or margarine
• 100 g. crushed Marie biscuits
• 1-1/2 cups (350 ml) desiccated coconut
• 1 tin condensed milk
• 1 packet chopped glace cherries
• 150 g. cooking chocolate
• 30 g. copha

Preparation

• Melt the butter and combine the sugar, sifted flour and cocoa, and crushed biscuits.
• Spread into a lamington tin and bake in a moderate oven for 15 minutes.
• For the filling, mix together the coconut, condensed milk and chopped glace cherries, and spread evenly onto the base.
• Cook for a further 15 minutes.
• Melt the cooking chocolate and copha together and spread over the cooled slice.
• Cut into squares when the chocolate is set.

Comments

Copha is a solid fat that is derived from the coconut.