Desserts Recipes - Chocolate Coconut Squares Recipe

  
 

Desserts Recipes - Chocolate Coconut Squares Recipe

Ingredients

SERVES 9

  • 225g/8oz dark chocolate digestive biscuits

  • 75g/3oz butter (plus extra for greasing)

  • 175g/6oz canned evaporated milk

  • 1 egg (beaten)

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

  • 25g/1oz caster sugar

  • 50g/2oz self-raising flour (sifted)

  • 100g/4oz desiccated coconut

  • 50g/2oz dark chocolate

Method:

  1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas mark 5. Grease a shallow 20cm/8in square cake tin and line the base.

  2. Crush the biscuits in a polythene bag with a rolling pin. Melt the butter in a saucepan and stir in the crushed biscuits until well combined.

  3. Press the mixture into the base of the cake tin. Beat together the evaporated milk, egg, vanilla essence and sugar until smooth.

  4. Stir in the flour and coconut. Pour the mixture over the biscuit base and level the top.

  5. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Leave to cool in the cake tin for about 5 minutes, then cut into squares. Leave to cool completely in the tin.

  6. Carefully remove the squares from the tin and place them on a board.

  7. Melt the dark chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Drizzle it over the squares to decorate them. Leave the chocolate to set before serving.