Peppermint Slice

Name: Peppermint Slice
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 100 g plain flour; 70 g caster sugar; 100 g desiccated coconut; 15 g cocoa powder; 1 tsp baking powder; 270 g icing sugar; 2 tbsp milk; ¼ tsp peppermint extract; ¼ tsp green food colouring; 110 g dark chocolate; 75 g butter; 90 g Peppermint Aero bar, crushed into uneven pieces; 150 g butter, slightly softened

Preparation info

Makes
16

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

About

Coconutty, minty and chocolatey – it should be too much but it is in fact spot on. We sell a LOT of peppermint slices…

Ingredients

For the Base

150 g butter, slightly softened
100 g plain flour
70

United Kingdom
Scottish
Dessert
Vegetarian
Scotland

Method

Preheat your oven to 170°C/150°C fan/gas mark 3.
In a food processor, blitz together the butter, flour, sugar, coconut, cocoa powder and baking powder (you can also do this by hand with a wooden spoon).
Press the dough into your lined tin in