Gift idea: Coconut ice

Coconut ice doesn’t require any cooking, so it’s a good recipe for kids to help with. Give it away to trick or treaters, or simply treat your family.

 

Coconut ice
Makes about 50 pieces

61/4 cups (1kg) icing sugar mixture
31/3 cups (300g) desiccated coconut
1 eggwhite
11/2 tsp vanilla extract
395g can sweetened condensed milk
Yellow and red food colouring

1. Sift icing sugar into a bowl. Add coconut and stir well to combine. Combine eggwhite, vanilla and 2 tbs water then add to coconut mixture with condensed milk. Using a spoon, stir to combine, then using your hands, rub wet ingredients into dry ingredients until mixture comes together.
2. Grease a shallow 20cm square cake tin then line base and sides with baking paper. Divide mixture in 1/2. Press 1/2 over base of prepared tin. Smooth top.
3. Add 4-5 drops yellow colouring and 2-3 drops red colouring to remaining mixture, to obtain a pale orange colour. Knead with your hands to distribute colour. Press orange mixture over white in tin. Smooth top. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours or until firm.
4. Turn coconut ice out and cut into 3cm squares. Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.

Recipe & styling: Sophia Young. Photography: Andrew Lehmann.