Strawberry Coconut Slice
By: Sudha
Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 12:14am

Ingredients




Base

120 grams butter
30 grams castor sugar
115 grams flour
50 ml fresh milk
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 teaspoon baking powder
Filling

200 cups gm/1  strawberry jam
Toppings

100 grams unsalted butter
2 eggs
150 grams sugar
100 grams desiccated coconut
35 grams flour

Preparation

1 Base: 2 Beat butter and sugar until fluffy . 3 Add in egg and vanilla essence and beat further. 4 Mix baking powder with flour . 5 Fold in the flour and milk alternatively into the batter bit by bit . 6 Grease a pan with parchment paper for easy handling. 7 Spread the base mixture in the pan. 8 Filling: 9 Spread the strawberry jam on the base. 10 You can use the back of a spoon to make the consistency of the jam spreadable before spreading it on the base. 11 Topping: 12 Beat the butter with sugar until fluffy. 13 Add in eggs one at a time. 14 Add in desiccated coconut and flour and beat until all are well incorporated. 15 Drop spoonful of coconut topping on top of the jam mixture until you cover the whole filling. 16 Do not spread it because then the jam will mix in with the coconut mixture. 17 Preheat oven at 180C and bake for 20-25mins. 18 Leave to cool slightly before cutting into slices .

About


This recipe if from Bill Granger.Bill’s recipe uses cup measurement but I have converted to standard
unit measurements .There are 3 stages to go through but worth it

Comments:
Desiree Mellon

This looks really good. I want to try it soon!