Chocolate Coconut Squares

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Chocolate Coconut Squares is a delicious dish built around egg, selfraising flour and baking powder. It has a homemade, generous feel that makes it easy to imagine as the star of the meal, with a creamy coconut note.

Preparation time: 20 min

Ingredients

• Butter – 100g
• Caster Sugar – 100g
• Egg – 2
• Self-raising Flour – 140g
• Baking Powder – 1 teaspoon
• Cocoa Powder – 2 tablespoons
• Milk – 2 tablespoons
• Plain Chocolate – 100g
• Butter – 25g
• Icing Sugar – 100g
• Desiccated Coconut – 100g

Method

step 1
Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line the base of a 20cm square baking tin. Beat together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy, then beat in the eggs. Add 1 tbsp of the flour if the mix starts to curdle.
step 2
Sieve in the flour, baking powder and cocoa and fold in with a metal spoon. Stir in the milk. Scrape mix into the tin and level the top. Bake for 18-20 mins or until the cake springs back when pressed. Allow to cool in the tin.
step 3
To make the icing, put the chocolate, butter and 4 tbsp water in a pan and gently heat until melted. Allow to cool slightly, then beat in the icing sugar.
step 4
Remove cake from tin and peel away paper. Cut into 16 squares. Dip the squares into the icing, then roll in the coconut. Allow to set on cooling rack.