Coconut Ice For Community Day

                                       

Here is the coconut ice that we are making

for community day on Wednesday. Every

class is cooking a meal for community day.

LOOK HOW YUM IT IS!

Please come back to check what I'm up to.

Here is the recipe.

Ingredients

100g butter

1 cup milk

6 cups Chelsea Icing Sugar

1 tsp salt

1 cup desiccated coconut

2 tsp coconut essence

Method

Place the butter, milk, Icing Sugar and salt in a large- sized saucepan and heat gently until the sugar dissolves. Bring the mixture to the boil and keep the heat sufficient to just maintain the boil, stirring only occasionally, until the mixture reaches soft-ball stage (120°C). Be careful that the mixture doesn't spit and burn you!

Add the coconut and coconut essence and remove from the heat. Cool for 5-10 minutes, then beat until the mixture thickens. Pour into a greased tin approximately 20x20cm. Allow to cool and cut into squares.

Note: For pink coconut ice add a drop of red food colouring with the coconut. For the traditional two-tone effect make a batch of white and then a batch of pink, pouring the pink on top of the set white.