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Chocolate Coconut Bars

September 19, 2013 By A Spoonful of Sugar - 7 Comments

Every weekend we bake up a few treats to include in our lunch boxes during the week, and to have with our weekend coffee. We are always looking for recipes that freeze well. That way in the mornings when we are preparing the lunches we can quickly wrap the morning teas in plastic wrap and pop them in the lunch boxes.
Last weekend Sarah baked Chocolate Coconut Bars. The recipe is from an old cookbook of mine, The Big Book of Beautiful Biscuits, which was one of the very first cookbooks I bought and has been well used over the years . It is a delicious slice that ticks all the boxes.

Chocolate Coconut Bars

Ingredients

Base
125 g (4 oz) butter
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup coconut
1/2 cup plain flour
1/3 cup self raising flour
1 tablespoon cocoa
1 egg
Icing
1 cup icing sugar
1 tablespoon cocoa
1 teaspoon soft butter
1 tablespoon milk
coconut to sprinkle on top 
Base 
Melt butter over low heat. Stir in sugar, coconut, sifted flours and cocoa, then lightly beaten egg. Spread mixture evenly over base of well greased 28 x 18 cm (11 x 7 inch) tin. Bake in moderate oven for 20 minutes. Spread with icing immediately, stand for 10 minutes. Sprinkle with extra coconut. Cut into bars and cool in tin.
Icing
Stir icing sugar and cocoa into bowl. Stir in butter and enough milk to give a thick paste.

Check out some of our other favourite Chocolate Slice recipes:

Chocolate Mint Slice
Chocolate Chip Slice
White Chocolate Caramel Slice

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Comments

  1. Amy Morinaka says

    September 19, 2013 at 11:10 pm

    Yum! I can tell how good Sarah is as a pastry chef; those chocolate coconut bars looks soooo tempting! Thanks so much for sharing ;D

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  2. Amy Morinaka says

    September 19, 2013 at 11:10 pm

    Yum! I can tell how good Sarah is as a pastry chef; those chocolate coconut bars looks soooo tempting! Thanks so much for sharing ;D

    Reply
  3. sewtakeahike says

    September 20, 2013 at 3:41 am

    They look snd sound so very good! Thank you for the recipe!

    Reply
  4. sewtakeahike says

    September 20, 2013 at 3:42 am

    They look snd sound so very good! Thank you for the recipe!

    Reply
  5. Mrs. Lucky says

    September 20, 2013 at 7:05 am

    The slices look delicious!

    Reply
  6. Farah says

    September 20, 2013 at 7:43 am

    They look delicious and easy to make, sunday morning I ll try them… Thanks for sharing
    With Love
    Farah
    http://craftaworld.blogspot.com/

    Reply
  7. Heather says

    September 20, 2013 at 2:16 pm

    Looks so yummy and easy to make. I think I will make some this weekend.

    Reply

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