Chocolate coconut squares

Name: Chocolate coconut squares
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 275 g icing sugar; 2 tablespoons double cream; 110 g butter; 2 tablespoons dark chocolate, grated; 50 g caster sugar; 1 egg, beaten; 140 g desiccated coconut; 225 g crumbled digestive biscuits

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Clarissa's Comfort Food

By Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 2008

About

This is a treat from my childhood. The chocolate and coconut were deeply exotic to a child of the 1950s, and I can remember helping Louise, our cook, to make these, which made them taste even more yummy.

Ingredients

110 g butter
2 tablespoons dark chocolate, grated
50 g</

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegetarian
London

Method

Melt the butter, chocolate and sugar over a low heat. Remove from the heat, then’ stir in the egg, desiccated coconut, crumbled biscuits and vanilla essence. Pour the mixture into a 30 x 22cm Swiss roll tin. Smooth the top and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.

For the icing, cream the butter, stir in the cream, sift in the icing sugar and beat until smooth. Spread over the chilled bas